Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard University Press aims to aid in the advancement of knowledge by making possible the wide distribution of the work of the foremost scholars of the world". So runs the ambitious statement of the purpose of the University Press as given in the Catalogue. Only those who have suffered their books to be published by the Press can tell how far short of this ideal the reality is. The difficulties of the work done in Randall Hall are such that scholars send to the Press only those books which commercial Houses refuse to publish...
...laborer; more important than executive, laborer, or consumer is the all-enveloping statesmanlike problem of general business policy. A university might have an overwhelming interest in a statesmanlike economic policy which, while diminishing the profits of individual business concerns, might have prevented or tended to prevent the world-wide depression in which, to their surprise, the Harvard Business forecasters, like other business men, unexpectedly found themselves...
Nevertheless the sales tax split the Democratic House ranks wide open. Members repudiated the measure as a party bill, flayed it on a breach of party tradition. They vehemently argued that it was a tax upon the necessities of life, and hence upon the poor man, without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election...
During N'Gi's illness the U. S. Press became ape-conscious. In Washington another gorilla, named O'Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...
...request of the Harvard Psychological Clinic for reports of dreams having to do with the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, over 500 letters have been received during the last four days. Coming from all but four states of the Union as well as Canada, these reports represent a wide variety of experiences in dreams...