Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scale. If we are going to preserve the self respect and sense of credit obligation of the unemployed in the United States, we must start now to prepare for the future by introducing unemployment insurance and supplementing it when necessary by regular financial assistance. The sooner the various states adopt unemployment insurance, the better...
...became less Capitalistic, more Socialistic. In line with this trend Trotsky & Friends demanded the wiping out of the kulak or rich peasant. Stalin called their doctrines a "Left Heresy." He secured their expulsion from the Communistic Party in December 1927-then, as the new year opened Stalin proceeded to adopt Trotsky's heresy as his policy, moved ruthlessly to "liquidate the kulak as a class...
Rockabye (RKO) marks the début of Constance Bennett as a tragedienne. She is Judy Carrol, a successful actress with a gashouse past and a dipsomaniac mother. What she wants more than anything else is a baby. She tries to adopt one but the child's custodians decide Judy is incapable of providing it with a proper environment...
...method suggested by the report is the fact that it is untried whereas the New Plan is already in effect. The suggested plan is experimental and ideal, which would make the majority of colleges who dislike to be "the first by whom the new is tried" hesitant to adopt it. To remedy the shortcomings of current admission systems the report seeks to admit only the student who is genuine college material, by presenting an accurate standard for estimating his fitness. Yet the New Plan has been tried, found practicable, and adopted. By means of the New Plan's "check...
...December last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted that for seniors who were candidates for honors, the taking of hour examinations within their field of concentration would be optional, "provided that the department...decided to adopt that ruling". So far this year, no departments have taken any decided stand and have left it conditionally up to professors of each course. The result has been that seniors have unwittingly cut hour examinations, others have taken examinations they later found unnecessary; and the value of the ruling is thus nullified...