Word: vaguest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Others of us who were here will also profit. Though the news releases were frequent and to the point, there was so much that a great many students had no more than the vaguest idea of what it was all about. Now, if they never knew before, they may now. Mr. Greene's book is 100% complete and clear. All the events are recorded. During the actual three days all the more important speeches are reproduced. Contained are lists of delegates, accounts of exhibits, messages, personnel...
Actually that harmony was an illusion. The national Chamber was founded in 1912 under the benevolent eye of William Howard Taft for the express purpose of answering the old question: "What does business think?" The answer is that business seldom agrees on any but the broadest and vaguest questions. The legislative interests of one company, of one industry, may directly conflict with those of a dozen others. Lately the Chamber has been criticized for representing only small commercial enterprises. Only last month it was learned that the Automobile Manufacturers Association had transferred its allegiance from the Chamber to the more...
...Congress to deliberate upon the New Deal. Two years ago the delegates to the annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce converged on Washington with quaking hearts and fearful step, plumped for President Roosevelt's proposed partnership of Government & Business and departed with only the vaguest notion of the New Deal's implications. Last year, somewhat wiser and more cheerful, the convening Chambermen undertook to criticize the New Deal-only to have the President tell them sharply to stop crying ''Wolf!" By last week business profits had recovered enough to send the Chambermen...
...placed it among the twelve brightest stars in the sky (TIME Dec 31). Only last fortnight did Nova Herculis 1934, on the downgrade to its onetime obscurity, become again too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers do not know why occasional stars blow up, venture only the vaguest guesses. But in recent years no less than 65 novae have been discovered on photographic plates, and if this is a fair measure of frequency, it seems reasonable to suppose that every star becomes a nova at least once in the hundreds of billions of years of its life...
Philosophy A gathers its enrollment from two classes of students. One class has not the vaguest conception of what philosophy is, or intends to accomplish, either before or after taking the course. This class is largely composed of those who fear the mournful numbers of mathematics in the matter of taking off the mathematics requirement, and five into the depths of philosophy in full retreat. The other class is composed of those who are either concentrating in Philosophy or Psychology or else are eager to gain an introduction to Philosophy by the historical method. This class generally leaves the course...