Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...consumers bought new cars partly in fear of priorities, they bought other things because they had money to spend. Retail sales in 1940's last quarter ran about 10% ahead of 1939. Sears and Montgomery Ward, whose sales reflect farm buying, set new sales records in 1940-10-15% above...
...have given Comrade Stalin satisfaction to reflect that he had taught the tough-skulled British another lesson without hurting his own cause one whit. For Russia fears nothing from any nation on earth except Germany. Fear of Germany and shrewd appraisal of Germany's needs help to lead Russia into bargains with Germany. Last year's bargain gave Russia a year of peace, new territory, and easier frontiers to defend. This year's bargain, whatever it may be, was probably designed with the same ends in view...
...exile, Tugwell first took a flyer in the sugar business. His next job was the chairmanship of Fiorello LaGuardia's New York City Planning Commission. In this job, he had time to reflect on two things: 1 ) the fact that his more discreet friend, Adolph A. Berle Jr., whose economics are even less laissez-fairist than his, nevertheless managed to be an eminently respectable Assistant Secretary of State; 2) the long-range problem of integrating municipal spending and taxing with Federal fiscal policy...
...that the emotions raised by war are regrettable, or, to use President Conant's word, unedifying, is very far from saying that they are avoidable on the part of members of a University that cannot but reflect the emotions of a community of which it is a part. A philosophic detachment so complete as to impose upon all its members that superiority to human emotions and mundane events which Mr. Gregg advocates would be impossible outside of a retreat, which by its very seclusion would limit its spiritual benefits to its own members. A university, nevertheless, and quite fortunately...
...immense confidence in the accuracy of his surveys. What he fears more than a wrong report is "an election dominated by apathy, where the people don't take the trouble to vote, and where our poll might conceivably reflect true public opinion more accurately than the election itself." But he also insists on the limitations of his polls. He steadfastly refuses to make any forecast of electoral votes. The important and proper use of his political surveys is, he insists, not to predict elections but to obtain an over-all view of popular sentiment on public issues...