Word: reflected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes me feel old to reflect that I know one member of the Class of 1842 personally. Eleven of them lived into the present century, the last dying in 1911. So if the same average holds good, twenty percent of 1942 can hope to see New Year's Day 2001. Let's hope they will find that year a little more peaceful than this year of unemployment, war, and hurricanes...
...president, Nathaniel Leverone, secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, thinks vending machine sounds too much like slot machine. Of the 200,000 canteens in 44 States, about 98% are in factories. During the nine years his company has been going, President Leverone has noticed that canteen sales accurately reflect factory employment. Last fall, when the automobile plants began shutting down, canteen sales in Detroit fell from top of the list to the bottom. Once President Leverone telephoned an officer in a large Chicago electrical supply house, startled him by remarking: "I see you laid off about...
...replacing the other it preserves the four-rung ladder of Harvard undergraduate education. As the newest part in this old instrument, which swings with each year's fresh win yet is braced by the soundness gained from the past, you Freshmen are obliged to reflect on what you will do to make the rung sturdy and lasting. Because not only is the future of Harvard dependent on your use of the step, but even the college destiny of yourself. What you do the first year will determine what you leave to Harvard as well as what you absorb from...
...illegal practices, Attorney Arnold made it clear that he was not out to fight the A. M. A., that he would drop proceedings if the A. M. A. would stop chivying the cooperatives. Said he: "The department does not take the view that the offences committed are crimes which reflect upon the character or high standing of the persons involved. The analogy to which this proceeding should be compared is that of a prosecution for reckless driving committed by a person of distinction and good-will who is in a hurry to meet his legitimate engagements...
...open sore if not outright scandal that was long French Guiana made little impression on successive French governments until Léon Blum became Premier. Then the penal colony was described as a failure. The escaped convicts were said to reflect on Frenchmen everywhere. Explains the bill finally adopted: "Such a situation cannot be prolonged without doing injury to the prestige of France...