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Word: accountability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loser in court shall not be granted a new trial on account of an error unless such error actually affected the case's outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Substantial Justice | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Potato Picking Contest (Wed. 2:15 p.m., MBS). Maine's Governor Lewis O. Barrows, Idaho's Governor Barzilla W. Clark pick up freshly-dug potatoes. Tuber-by-tuber account from Fort Fairfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Considered raising the limit on insured bank deposits. To the 13,719 U. S. banks now insured (up to $5,000 per account) by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Chairman Leo Crowley sent a letter asking for statistics on the number of their accounts over $5,000 in size. Recalling that Chairman Henry Steagall of the House Banking Committee had advocated increased coverage, Chairman Crowley said FDIC was willing to raise the ante if the additional risk were "very small." Previous estimates showed that about 95% of U. S. deposits were covered by the present limit. But a new estimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Investor's Advocate | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Fellows, compared to seven last year. Also, an undetermined number of students from other graduate schools will study at the Littauer Center. The total enrollment figure is considerably boosted when the many special students, Fellows, travelling Fellows, unclassified students, and the University Extension students are taken into account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Schools Expect Slight Increase in Enrollment Over Last Year's Figures; Law, Business, Medical Lead | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. . . . The essence of culture is never to be satisfied with a conventional account of anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALUE OF WASTING TIME | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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