Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been taken as self-evident in the conduct of Freshman affairs that a student body, no matter how undemocratically chosen or how unrepresentative of the class as a whole, is better than no student body at all. The Union Committee, however, is not unrepresentative. Selected with great care, it covers geographical differences, has both high school and prep school members, tries to represent as many dormitories as possible...
...experience which enabled him to select the conservative articles on business, the personal experiences and success stories for which Satevepost became famous. When he had trouble getting the material he wanted, Editor Lorimer wrote it himself, among his best efforts being the shrewd and practical Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Contemptuous of things highbrow, Editor Lorimer developed the current commercial, snapper-ending short-story technique. By 1908 Editor Lorimer's magazine had passed 1,000,000 circulation. In the peak of 1929 prosperity Satevepost bounded over 3,000,000, sold $50,000,000 in advertising...
...speech, carried by Station WAAB and the Colonial network last night, Dr. Reynolds declared that self-regulation of industry "places in the hands of private interests tremendous power, with no guarantee that this power will be used for the public good." He stated that "where competition exists the chances of planful exploitation of the public are reduced and the likelihood of technical progress is increased," but said that "competition has already practically disappeared in many industries, and that in other industries it has proven conspicuously wasteful." Placing public regulation as the only alternative to competition, Dr. Reynolds said that...
...self-protection of the U. S.. Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service comfortably announced: "It is not believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted...
Maharani; Tom Ransome, lean, good-looking profligate and world-wanderer; Fern Simon, pretty daughter of the resident missionary; Major Safti, brilliant native surgeon, and Miss MacDaid, his head nurse; Lord Esketh, a self-made peer, and his lady; attendant functionaries, members of the garrison, dried-up and dissatisfied English ladies...