Word: therefrom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American students are not in college because of a feeling that the education derived therefrom will enable them to build up a nation that needs their help. There is the feeling, all too frequently, that American luxury and case are here, and we are here to enjoy them. We have no Hitler organizing us to overthrow what is considered an inadequate governmental regime. As University students we are not organized into student Fascist societies, to whom the responsibility for building a nation is assigned. Few if any Harvard students, for example, are much distressed over the fact that...
...which professional foes of the "Power Trust" on Capitol Hill have most eagerly waited. Eminent in this group is Iowa's loud, intransigent Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart. Like Senators Norris, Nye, Howell, La Follette et al., he is ready to seize upon the Commission's disclosures and therefrom argue for stricter Federal regulation of interstate power. As the Commission's hearings started Phase II last week in a schoolroom atmosphere of charts and maps, who should be called to the witness stand but Smith Wildman Brookhart Jr., the Iowa Senator's slender, soft-voiced, studious...
...sick headache, that nuisance in households one of whose members suffers therefrom, last week received close study at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Despite the wide prevalence of the ailment, especially in neurotic families, its nature is not known. At least five major causes have been suggested. But those five are usually obscured because the victims, to get attention and coddling, often imagine or pretend other ailments. They fall into megrims, fancies, freaks; they have the blues, the dumps; they become hipped on their misery...
Schoolgirl. Last year Carman Dee Barnes, 17, onetime student at Ward-Belmont School (Nashville, Tenn.) wrote a book "all by herself" called Schoolgirl. Therefrom this play has been made with the help of A. W. Pezet, who learned his playwriting at Professor George Pierce Baker's celebrated Harvard "47 Workshop." He is a onetime editorial adviser of Horace Liveright Inc., publishers of the Barnes book...
...handsome profit of more than 50% per annum. But if the people think that they "really"' own the Crown lands, then British Royalty are a luxury 28 times as costly as the President of the U. S. Distinct from all these calculations are the "private fortunes" and incomes therefrom of President Hoover and George V, both millionaires...