Word: traits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privilege of week-ends were suspended--the result? The students would become rebellious, a human trait, in that they would be reluctant in doing the work. Then the scholastic standing of the school would go down; not up. Some other way must be found to raise the scholastic standing of Hebron...
Steffens' most noteworthy trait was his ability as an interviewer. From the hardest-boiled bosses he wrung the most astounding admissions. Modestly he explains his success by attributing it to a realization of his own sinfulness. Once he had stepped out of the reformer's attitude; "I was never again mistaken for an honest man by a crook. . . . The politicians . . . and the consciously corrupting business leaders have ever since acted with me upon the understanding that I was one of them. It facilitated my work; it explains much of my success in getting at the facts...
...Tall (6 ft. plus), with thin brown hair, careful in dress and somewhat pompous in bearing, Mr. Hughes frequently walks the four miles between home and office, makes the trip in about an hour and five minutes. He considers his wife "51% of our private corporation." A remarkable Hughes trait is an unbending and unbroken silence on the matter of his first given name. He is always I. Lamont; what the "I" indicates none will divulge. Mr. Hughes's first Steel job (in 1897) was with Carnegie Steel. In addition to a long period of field work...
...dealers, whose business entails an endless succession of free exhibitions before a surfeited public, have an oriental trait: seldom on view, kept in the back rooms of their bazaars for the eyes of richest customers alone, are their greatest treasures. But last week New Yorkers with charity in their hearts and 50? in their pockets were able to see more than 100 of these back-room masterpieces, contributed by 33 art galleries. Purpose of the show was to raise money for the Women's Fund of the Emergency Unemployment Committee. Women as well as men are unemployed...
...Such sophomoric abortions as the invasion of dormitory rooms whose occupants were totally unknown to the neophytes, the moronic use of any device calculated to arouse a maximum of noise, and deliberate annoyance of professors residing in the Yard dormitories are not even on a par with collegiateism, a trait which supposedly has been successfully segregated from the Harvard tradition...