Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second place, the influence of the general examination has not, on account of course requirements, been so great as its significance deserves. There has been in the past a reluctance to give up the system of course credits before a different method of instruction had proved itself practicable to American conditions. This has had some unfortunate results. On the one hand, course requirements have often seriously interrupted the student's work with his tutor. On the other, the nature of course examinations tends to discourage, to some extent, the kind of work the general examination should stimulate. Of course...
...British soldiers steaming from the Far East to the Mediterranean mutinied and killed three British merchant seamen, according to Captain David Bone who filed at Gibraltar a terse account which shocked London. The soldiers were ordered brought to Southampton for trial...
...make things mentally easy for even the dullest, the official organ of Communist Youth, the Komsomolskaya Pravda, carried an arresting account of doings on New Year's Eve in one of Moscow's district locals of the Young Communists. Just as Grandfather Frost began handing out presents to Red moppets, a Red youth interrupted the festivities by shouting, "Stop! Comrades, you are making a terrible ideological mistake. Trees in the Communist society are meant for such serious use as the building of homes for the proletariat. Comrades, I order you to go home! Otherwise the whole meaning...
...boom sales of Japanese goods last autumn went a trade mission sent by the Osaka branch of the Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst...
...team of 13 sailed for Europe to compete in the Second Winter Olympic Games. Their departure received no attention whatever. They gave a mediocre account of themselves at St. Moritz. They sailed home again with few better grounds for satisfaction than the fact that almost no one knew what they had been...