Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected, possibly in a campaign where some other issue is paramount. Said he: "I am confirmed in this view by the spectacle of American liberals, so bent upon the attainment of their immediate ends that they are prepared to establish a system of government in which all liberty and all democracy in America would be staked on the outcome of one election. If liberal Democrats are willing to do that...
...financed Adolf Hitler in the first place are in panic at his "inflexible resolve" that they shall offer the German folk a volkswagen at a folksy price. Thus far 30 second-stage "experimental volkswagen" have been built in Germany after testing three first-stage experimental models. Not on view at the Berlin Show this week was a single "Folksy Automobile." Nearest thing to it: the 4-cylinder, 23 h. p. Opel offered by General Motors German subsidiary at 1,450 marks. By special permission of newlywed Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana her new 12-cylinder Maybach-Zeppelin convertible costing...
Because there are only 12 racquets courts and about 300 racquets players in the U. S., racquets might seem to offer a choice field for any able-bodied young man who wanted the distinction of championship at some well-publicized and patrician indoor sport. Last week, this point of view appeared to be substantiated when a wiry, darkhaired young Manhattan stockbroker named Robert Grant III, in his first season of serious racquets competition, won the U. S. amateur championship in New York's Racquets & Tennis Club after playing four tournament matches in the course of which he lost only...
...sense of reality given by prominent men to problems which, in textbooks, seem entirely "academic", the importance with which these problems are invested by the willingness of industrial and governmental leaders to come to Cambridge to discuss them, the stimulation attendant upon new facts and divergent points of view; all these are obvious benefits. But more important still is the feeling which conferees must have had that no theory offered by professors, no method advocated by intrenched groups was infallible. All must have seen that a tremendous state of flux surrounded the problems. With this comes the realization that...
...With a view to the advantages which can be gained from the combination, Mr. Russell T. Sharpe has made several changes in the method of application for scholarships which promise to result in a more equitable distribution of available funds. He has composed an application blank which is at once simpler and more comprehensive than the old-one. In particular, the revised blank requires the names of two instructors and of directors of extra-curricular activities who know the applicant, rather than the single name of the man's tutor. Information from these persons and from personal interviews with...