Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been donations to Caltech: The Rockefellers' general education board $3,000,000; the Carnegie groups $250,000 and more; Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics $350,000. Southern California Edison Co. gave a laboratory. General Electric is giving the great quartz mirror at cost. Within reason Caltech can get what it needs from U. S. eleemosinary and industrial institutions and its enthusiastic personal backers. Its preeminence as a research and teaching school, the high-grade of its staff and the prestige of its trustees makes this possible. Twenty years ago there was a Throop College...
...sacred as the relationship between iron and steel is the bond between milk and cheese. For this reason Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. controls large dairy interests, also sells milk. And for this reason big dairy companies also sell cheese. Yet the first of recent Kraft-Phenix merger rumors concerned not a milk company, but Standard Brands, Inc., which sells yeast, coffee, baking powder. Although this report may have been without foundation, more definite was an announcement that the Reynolds-Hanes interests, which control Kraft-Phenix, and National City Co. had reached an agreement to form a great merger between Kraft...
...article that does not fit well, is not the proper color or quantity, does not please the folks at home, or for any reason is not perfectly satisfactory, should be brought back at once, and ... we will refund the money." Citizens of Philadelphia, turning from their daily preoccupation with the Civil War, were glad to read Merchantman John Wanamaker's announcement, found him as good as his word, helped him turn over his stock so fast that soon he was Philadelphia's biggest merchant, civic monument, U. S. phenomenon...
...fold purpose of a university. The more obvious purpose and that which receives the majority of attention is the education of students many of whom have no intention of pursuing their studies farther than in their four years curriculum of formal instruction. Perhaps this may be termed the prime reason for the establishment and maintenance of centers of higher learning. Manifestly, it is for this purpose that most of the funds possessed by the university have been donated. The House Plan, the classrooms, the athletic facilities, all are provided chiefly for the benefit of that class which will not directly...
...proposition to its logical and final conclusion in having the recess not only end but begin on a Sunday. While the projected prolongation for next winter's holidays is not as yet a permanent institution, being in the nature of a special dispensation for experimental purposes, there is every reason to believe that the results will justify a continuation of the policy...