Word: reflectively
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...view of the fact that these statements are wholly untrue and reflect most injuriously on his character and integrity, I write to ask that you retract such statements in the next issue of your magazine in space equally as prominent as that devoted to the original inaccurate statements...
...relax sanctions now, would involve an admission of failure of the League which would reflect badly on the moral authority of Great Britain. The average Englishman realizes this, but it is hard for him also to realize that it is partly the fault of a Government which allowed tons of poison gas to be shipped to Italian armies through the Suez Canal and permitted British Oil companies to sell their products as fuel for Mussolini's airplanes and tanks. They have learned the bitter lesson that sanctions are useless and futile, unless they are carried through to their logical conclusions...
...into an astonishing new factory: one five-acre room without windows. Executives and machines were to work side by side, their noises deadened by sound-absorbing ceilings; machines were to be bright orange against black floors to prevent accidents by making everything conspicuous; walls and ceilings, part blue to reflect ultraviolet rays, part green to energize workmen, part white for light and cleanliness. Two hours before closing time, flagging workmen were to be daily revived by a burst of stirring music. But the five-acre room, finished in 1932, still stands empty and idle...
...careers of most crack U. S. foreign correspondents can be divided into two phases. In the first they report. In the second they reflect. That Dorothy Thompson, like James Vincent Sheean and Walter Duranty, was finished with Phase No. 1 was clear last week when she inaugurated a thoughtful column in the New York Herald Tribune called "On The Record...
...Edison. At a raucous annual meeting in Manhattan, Consolidated Gas Co. stockholders voted, 7,836,658 shares to 758 shares, to change their company's name to Consolidated Edison "to reflect more nearly the character of the business, three-quarters of which is now the sale of electricity...