Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Texas last week rubbed out the one Republican patch on its huge and other wise Democratic Congressional map. By so doing it definitely handed control of the 72nd House of Representatives which meets this week for the first time, over to Democracy by a molecular majority. On that majority a stocky little Texan with fiery blue eyes and stubbly white hair pre pared to mount the rostrum to the stiff high-backed chair which holds the Speaker of the House and a power second only to that of the President. His name was John Nance Garner...
...built a microscope-objective (the lower lens, system of a microscope). Above this objective is an aperture in the bar, and directly over the aperture is a light. The light illuminates a cell placed on a slide in the aperture. By an arrangement of prisms placed periscope-wise in the bar, the image of the cell is carried through the microscope-objective, to one prism, then to the other, then through the upper lens of the microscope to the eyepiece, which is directly above the axis. The bar is then rotated at the rate of 8.000 revolutions a minute...
...bonds pay 5%, mature in 1946. President Walter Clark Teagle explained that, as one-quarter of the bonds' life had passed, it was wise to reduce the amount outstanding by the same proportion. Next year the company will save $1,500,000 on its fixed charges through this operation. Standard's financial position had to be strong to make this move. The last balance sheet, issued on Dec. 31, showed current assets of $730,000,000 against current liabilities of $169,000,000. Of the current assets $46,000,000 were in cash, $179,000,000 in marketable...
...chief interest, other directorates have learned to listen to the flow of anecdotes and discourses on education in which he often indulges at meetings before settling down to the business in hand. His colleagues know that he invariably gets down to business in the end, unhurried, efficient, wise. His other directorates have included Armour & Co., Chicago, Great Western, Chicago Daily News, Container Corp., Continental Illinois Bank & Trust (where he also sits with the executive committee), and a few months ago United States Steel Corp. was added to the list (TIME, July...
...forgotten the noble words of the William and Mary brethren in the preamble to its charter, "Whereas it is repugnant to the liberal principles of Societies, that they should be confined to any particular place, men or Description of men, and as the same should be extended to the wise & virtuous of what ever degree." It had brought as concrete results, an inter-change of ideas with other chapters; the institution of Anniversary Meetings in which the greatest of Harvard's graduates brought new and vital thoughts to the University; the establishment in 1785 of a library...