Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that these two forces are not intellectually opposed, that a great increase in endowment revenue might even reconcile them in practice, and make possible the growth of Harvard's new and expensive educational instruments without limiting their extension. But it is best to reckon without a great increase in endowment revenue. Mr. Conant is choosing between two practical alternatives. Oxford and Cambridge, in following one path, have hampered their development along the other; the state universities of America, on the reverse of the medal, have faced educational difficulties of their own. Whether Harvard, armed with great endowments...
...adding: "The peaceful population of Austria naturally has nothing to fear. . . . On the other hand this measure is to be understood as meaning that henceforth perpetrators and abettors and participants in disgraceful and bloody crimes and violent acts menacing the public safety will not be able to reckon with the light penalty hitherto specified in our laws...
...Thompson, North Carolina cotton broker, demanded release from the insane asylum to which his brother had had him committed, was asked by the judge: "Isn't it true that at one time you tried to take a bath in corn whiskey?'' Replied J. Bruce Thompson: "I reckon I did try to do that in one of my more debauched moments...
When Joseph Pulitzer's great New York World fell into the hands of Scripps-Howard two years ago to be merged into the New York World-Telegram, the new owners had to reckon with the resentment that is directed at anyone who has a hand in scrapping a respected newspaper. As defense against the charge of "Munseyism"* Publisher Roy Wilson Howard declaimed: "The consolidation means not the death of the New York World but its rebirth." Last week Scripps-Howard could point with pride to evidence of its sincerity. The World-Telegram was awarded the 1932 Pulitzer Prize...
...creditors abroad," shouted the Chancellor in tones recalling his military rank of oberstleutnant, "can reckon on repayment . . . only if they are prepared to take German commodities in payment, and this presupposes that they are willing to open their trade frontiers to our goods...