Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trials, at which Trotsky (in absentia) was charged with making a deal with Hitler to overthrow Stalin.* Scores of Old Bolsheviks and a miscellany of nondescript political ganoids dredged from the NKVD prisons were convicted of the same charge and shot. Trotsky contended that this charge had been refuted ad nauseam in his own and other people's writings...
President Conant's dictum is that the foundation of good teaching is creative research. The yardstick of the ad hoe committee, whose recommendations for permanent tenure are almost tantamount to election, has been the amount of published research done by the individual instructor. In so many words, this means that an instructor must, before his alloted time runs out, spend most of his time and effort in somehow culling sufficient material for a book out of the big research libraries of the country. This effort is made necessarily at the expense of his tutoring, no matter how implicitly he might...
...instructor is essentially the foundation on which the tutorial system rests, any question of a sufficiency or insufficiency of funds, or of the ability of some students to absorb anything from the tutorial method, is de trop without first a thorough overhauling of the guiding standards of the ad hoc committee. Unless a higher premium is placed on good teaching, the tutorial system can only continue to dissatisfy an increasing number of students and Faculty...
...charms, as exploited in advertisements, got Producer Howard Hughes in trouble with the Eric Johnston (ex-Will Hays) organization. Producer Hughes was summoned to defend himself next week against "suspension or expulsion" from the organization for violating the standards of decency. Sample obliquities in a recent newspaper ad that carried robusty Miss Russell's picture: "The Music Hall gets the big ones," "What are the two great reasons for Jane Russell's rise to stardom...
...everything else was just as greedily snapped up. The advertising manager of one store grumbled: "We can't keep stuff long enough to work up an ad." Customers even waited patiently in stores for goods to come in. Easter outfits were at a premium from coast to coast, with sky-high prices no deterrent...