Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...utmost type of heroism, which alone is worthy of the name, must be described, merely, as complete self-faithfulness: as integrity. On this level the life of James Joyce has its place, along with Blake's and Beethoven's, among the supreme examples. It is almost a Bible of what a great artist, an ultimately honest man, is, and is up against...
...Business School await only a substantial research endowment to unleash such an investigation. Dean Donham said, underlying its urgency with the assertion that "Civilization of the kind we value faces public and private breakdown at this administrative level...
What old Postal bondholders (or I. T. & T.) will get out of the deal depends on A. C. & R.'s subsidiaries. At an earnings level before interest and taxes of around $1,500,000 (about 30% above their combined earnings for 1939) I. T. & T.'s two-thirds stock interest in A. C. & R. gives it a better return than Postal bondholders, who have the larger bond interest. As for the Postal bondholders' interest in the new Postal, what they get will depend on whether the land lines can work a miracle, stay...
...might as well call it fiction because that it will largely be. As such it may nevertheless be an illuminating piece of historical literature, as are Robert Graves's two stories of a Roman emperor (I, Claudius and Claudius, the God). Or it may reach the second-rate level of a plausible, readable and honest tale like The Star-Gazer, which is a freely fictional novel of the life of Galileo...
This probably will not put the outcome in doubt; Coach Peroy predicts that "we won't have much trouble." But what it may do to the rest of the season, if these two lads are unable to trot their marks to the Dean's Office level, is a horse of a different color. Hopes for an undefeated team are more than a little clouded at present...