Word: widening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business and industrial interests but for all the residents of the city, who include the great majority of the Harvard teaching body. Toward alleviating this burden the University has done everything possible in past years to cooperate with the municipal authorities. In 1902 when the University had occasion to widen De Wolfe Street, President Eliot remarked that from then on Harvard had no intentions of attempting to reduce its tax bill. Even after the building of the Freshman Dormitories the college has continued to pay taxes on the land on which they stand. The present situation is complicated and there...
...case dated back to 1920-21, when Mayor Thompson and his friends (many of whom have since been his enemies) were making themselves popular by making Chicago beautiful. To widen streets and boulevards, they had to buy land. To buy land they had to have it appraised. Instead of paying fixed salaries to the appraisers, they had the City Council vote to pay the appraisers on a percentage basis. Thus, the higher the price fixed by the appraiser on a site, the higher the appraiser's fee. The appraisers, in turn, paid fat sums to the fund with which...
...rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" seems to apply here. Educators might hesitate to recognize the obvious need for separation, but soon they may have to focus their attention upon this situation. As long as steps like the Reading Period are taken, so long will the breach widen. The autimonies are clearly outlined. In the end, it is either the Tutorial System, the Reading Period, the degree with Honors on one side, or on the other lectures, the class room, the instructor, the weekly quizzes and time for athletics, extra-curriculum activities with the ordinary degree...
...traversed China without seeing children play, unreproved, the game of cat tails. Two or more stray cats are caught, tied together by their extremities, hung over a convenient limb, and left to claw out each others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once populated Leiyang in Hunan Province...
...been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will be bandiod about once more in the streets: and the papers will play the overture to another stupid tragedy...