Word: wield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...structure of Jewry and the Jewish Press in the U. S. may be expressed in generations. There is the proud old immigrant group, slowly diminishing, which lives strictly in the tradition of its fathers. Through it the great Yiddish language dailies (Forward, Day, Morning Journal) wield their power. A second generation (roughly preWar) shied away from the piety and solidarity of the oldster. To it the selfconscious, defensive Jewish weeklies address themselves. Many students profess to see now the beginning of a third generation, youthful and intelligent, proud but inquiring, race-conscious but dispassionate. For that group, and for inquisitive...
...book worth reading if nothing further were said. Next, the Bolsheviks are followed through their various vicissitudes with outlines of how these troubles were handled. Fortunately, the writer never allows himself to become enmeshed in the labyrinth of Soviet political structure but only considers the various commissions which wield the real power. For this reason his exposition is unusually lucid even if rudimentary...
...industry and finance. The International Chamber of Commerce now meeting in Washington is an instrument of the modern type for the manipulation of international matters as powerful as the official channels for foreign affairs. The importance attached to this conference is evidence of the increasing power which business interests wield in the creation of sound international relations...
...says: "We are not looking for the sort . . . who courts cheap popularity with his students, nor for the man who will conceive of his position either as that of Captain of the Boy Scouts or as that of a genial host at a protracted house party." He will wield a "civilizing influence." But ultimate authority will rest, as it has heretofore, in the Deans of the undergraduate schools...
...College itself, with 3217 men thus far registered, is larger this year than ever. Last year's figure was 3165. No considerable significance can be attached to any of these changes. Harvard is still growing, and such projects as the house plan, which help to make the whole less wield by reorganizing its structure, may provide relief...