Word: adjuncts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like Craig's wife. She was a possessive and deceitful creature, whose whole affection centered in her handsome house. Mr. Craig could not smoke in certain rooms. Mrs. Craig was forever following the maids around and remaking beds because of fancied wrinkles. Her husband was simply a necessary adjunct. He kept the house in operation with money, as the furnace kept it supplied with heat. He did not realize his helplessness until one day he was suspected of murder. His wife lied to detectives and upbraided him cruelly. All she was worrying about was notoriety. Mr. Craig abruptly recognized...
From its national headquarters at Chicago, the American Federation of Teachers (adjunct of the American Federation of Labor) issued a 16-pronged manifesto of its program for next year. The teachers will agitate...
...assume that the drama is recognized as an invaluable adjunct to society and such an assumption is a tacit admission of the importance of the actor. For without the actor there can be no play. And without capable interpretation by the actor the play loses its effect, and, thereby, whatever justification it had for its existence. And capable interpretation, just like playwriting, is partly a matter of genius, and partly a matter of training. The numerous schools of acting now existent in New York are a distinct admission of this fact by a supercilious Broadway which has scoffed at college...
...have a college of diplomacy (TIME, May 12). They agreed that it would be most appropriate to dedicate such a college to that eminent international servant, the late Walter Hines Page, U. S. War-time Ambassador to England, and to establish the college as an adjunct of his alma mater, John s Hopkins University. Plans arose, went forward...
...proclamation of the President. Nov. 17 and the six days immediately thereafter were observed as American Education Week. U. S. citizens throughout the land, especially parents and schoolteachers, bore in mind an official program arranged for them by the Bureau of Education (adjunct of the U. S. Department of the Interior) associated with the American Legion and the National Education Association...