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...businessmen-whose rising sales that year were more than offset by aggregate weakening of working capital-the steady downtrend in TIME'S Index from February to September 1929 gave ample warning that houses should be put in order, inventories cut and debts reduced. (And if enough businessmen had taken those steps, TIME'S Index-and all other indexes-would doubtless have showed a far less depressing downtrend in the sorry years from...
Lawrence quarreled as often with "the Danes" as with anyone else. But for them his brilliant talk and warm-hearted moments more than offset his erratic temperament. Besides, the morning after a tantrum he always appeared bearing a peace-offering of bread and cakes of his own baking...
Stressing the need for preserving intellectual freedom in this country to offset the losses to free thought in the totalitarian states of Europe, ten speakers, headed by Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; Daniel L. Marsh, President of Boston University; and Mildred H. McAfee, President of Wellesley College, celebrated Lincoln Day last night in an open meeting at Sanders Theatre...
These are all excellent suggestions but University Hall and the House Masters have constituted themselves as a force to maintain the status quo, claiming that any benefits gained by such measures are more than offset by losses. It is high time that they are forcefully disillusioned. The Council has helped do this by spiking the argument against the Associate Plan that it would overcrowd facilities. More generally, the House Masters must realize that their most potent contention against both the Junior-Senior Admission and the Associate Plans, that these will destroy House spirit, is woefully invalid. House spirit is ephemeral...
...important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine cheaper power to offset the economic decline of its forests and fisheries...