Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailors go to sea to keep the peace. Josephus Daniels and others have told them that grog is not good for peaceful men. The U. S. S. Memphis, about to depart from Baltimore for a southern winter cruise, last week installed a main-brace-splicer which improved even upon Mr. Daniels' famed grape juice. She was equipped with a $7,000 soda fountain and ice cream plant. The Navy's domestic scientists estimated that, in Caribbean weather, the Memphis crew of 435 would consume 80 gals, of ice cream...
...second of these acts which it is now proposed to repeal. We are not asked to vote on a proposal to repeal the first, which forbids the sale or exposure for sale of all intoxicating liquors. Even if the proposed repeal is carried, that first act will remain in force. It will be as illegal even according to our state law, to sell liquor or expose it for sale as it is now. Anyone who sells liquor in Massachusetts will still be a bootlegger even according to state...
...true, as Dr. Briggs points out, that schools of this type constitute a very small number of all the private schools of the country. Yet even though the schools which contribute little are at best harmless in their effect upon public education, there is reason to doubt that we shall ever want to wipe them out. American democracy seems to have established it as a fundamental principle that the rights of any minority shall be respected so long as the exercise of these rights does not do serious and demonstrable harm to the interests of the majority
...obvious that no part of this amount should be applied directly to the House Plan, even though it represents at present an extremely important aspect of the University. Mr. Harkness, it has been reported offered Harvard what was needed to establish the House Plan, and the University has made its estimate. There are far more crying needs in the University than the need for adornments and embellishments of the House Plan. It is even more clear that, with the one possible exception to be named below, not a dollar should be diverted toward the athletic program, which stands...
Perfect freedom is allowed the Harvard authorities in the expenditure of this gift through the unusual provisions of the will, which made no stipulations whatsoever as to what use the money should be put: Wyeth not even expressing the wish that the bequest should be considered as a memorial. This uncommon feature has aroused considerable speculation in University circles...