Word: unlikelihoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inclusive cost of the tour will be from $40 to $45. Unmentioned in the tourist plans was the fact that all U. S., French, British passports are stamped NOT VALID FOR SPAIN, also the unlikelihood that none-too-friendly France would permit mere tourists to cross her borders to Rightist Spain. But where France might prove stubborn on this score, friendly pro-Fascist Portugal might well prove amenable...
...advertising value as greater than that of any French creation since the Eiffel Tower was put up as a world wonder in 1889. Last week, however, Frenchmen, essentially thrifty, wanted to know what Normandie's operating profit is going to be, having long ago resigned themselves to the unlikelihood that she will earn satisfactory interest on the capital France has invested...
...friends agree with theirs. The obvious result is that the instructor ambitious for promotion--and which are not so?--must be continuously watchful not to offend the sensibilities of his superiors. Nothing could be less conducive to initiative, originality, and fresh ideas. Of perhaps greater importance even is the unlikelihood of bringing in men from the outside who are different and hence stimulating. A University to keep alive must grow and to grow must be constantly enlivened by the influx of intellectual opposites, new blood...