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...that it would rarely be given due weight. If he was a good tutor, the fact would not be held against him, but neither would it count heavily in his favor. Consequently the young man who went into tutoring tended to look upon it only as a stop-gap an activity through which he would be able to keep in touch with the academic world until something better came...
...Moffett job of stimulating private building had not yet been given a chance, that it alone could do the job. Others, among whom were Messrs. Ickes and Hopkins, felt the Moffett method would not get results in a reasonable length of time, favored rushing Government money into the gap...
With the opening of informal fall track, Eddle Farrell is faced with the prospects of a team which cannot be beaten in track events but which can hardly count on ten points in its field events. The loss of Dean and Healey leaves a gap which it will be difficult to fill. These two men alone assured Harvard of 16 points in the shot put and discus throw at every meet last year...
Speculation was rife on the possibilities of scheduling teams from outside New England to fill the gap left by the absence of Holy Cross but officials at the H.A.A. would not reveal which colleges were being considered as likely newcomers to the Harvard schedule...
...farmer sells and what he buys from industry, was 15.6?. Farm price for wheat was 92.2?, parity price 111.4?. Theoretically, the processing tax for cotton should have been 2.5?, for wheat 19.2?. Actually they were respectively 4.2? and 30?. In other words, consumers were more than bridging the gap between farm and parity prices. If farm prices continued to rise, or industrial prices began to fall, or both, parity would be reached and processing taxes would by law become inoperative. Without processing taxes to control production, the agricultural adjustment program would lapse, and the spectre of agricultural oversupply would again...