Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symposium on "Authority and the Individual" was given over to the subject "The State and Economic Enterprise." To this session Douglas Berry Copland, Professor of Commerce at the University of Melbourne, contributed some illuminating remarks on the subject of "The State and the Entrepreneur." Professor Copland spoke from wide experience, for he was one of a group of economists who were instrumental in bringing about a "State-engineered" recovery from the depression in Australia, and well knows the relations between the government and private enterprise. In spite of the fact that the state is often a "bad loser...
...ethics of small businessmen. . . . The difficulty then is . . . that defects of character which in a simple society may be endurable as common weaknesses of human nature, may threaten to wreck the structure of our society when they are magnified to the dimensions of nationwide industries or of continent-wide governments...
...thoughtful magazine survey of U. S. education, inspected 540 more such intimate autobiographies. Likewise stirred was his Classmate Laurence Leathe Winship, scholarly Sunday editor of the Boston Globe, who on John Tunis' suggestion sent the Class of 1911 a supplementary questionnaire. From these sources and from his own wide acquaintance in Manhattan's Harvard Club, John R. Tunis last week presented a full-length picture of the successes, failures, aspirations and accomplishments of Harvard University's Class...
...game was only a game, but His Majesty and Premier Mussolini, together with foreign military attaches, watched with grave attention the performance of several Italian novelties in war. The so-called "ground clearing tank" duly swept all obstacles before it, thundering forward to make a path 25 feet wide on which followed less Gargantuan motorized equipment. By a characteristic dictation of II Duce, the traditional rivalry of artillery and infantry corps was squashed by compressing the two arms into integrated units, and Fascist newsorgans declared: "For the first time the artillery fought in infantry units, not merely with them...
Printing a Wide World photograph of a herd of cattle grazing in the shadow of the North Dakota Capitol, the Forum explained: "Where those cows are presumably grazing is a graveled parking lot. The picture, fake, is a result of a photographic trick of superimposing a picture of a herd of cattle on a picture of the North Dakota State Capitol Building...