Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is one further profit to be had from this scheme. The tutor theoretically, is the one agent in the educational outfit who can, through his personal contact encourage interest in the better sort of scholarship and eventually lessen the false emphasis on marks. At present, that power remains mere theory. In our machine, the tutor is simply an accessory; the lecture system, with frequent examinations, is the framework, to which he has to attach himself as best be may. In England, on the contrary, he is one of the drive-wheels, the only person to whom the student...
Hugo Stinnes would probably agree with very little of this. He would almost certainly deny that his patriotism is only a shield to his own ambitions. He might be right. Coke is an agent in producing many beautiful things, and Stinnes may yet prove his policy noble, and for the benefit of the German people and the Fatherland...
...patients with influenza, has been independently cultivated, and has produced influenza-like symptoms when injected into rabbits. Numerous other varieties of bacteria, such as Pfeiffer's bacillus, are usually present in these puzzling respiratory diseases, and it is not clear that the new organism is the invariable causal agent of influenza, though it is believed that it produces conditions in the lung tissues which facilitate the onset of pneumonia and other complications. No specific vaccine, or serum has yet been devised to combat the bacterium, nor has the work been confirmed by other observers. We are still a long...
...recent conception of the state", Mr. Nearing said, "is that of an agent of the ruling class to be used to their own advantage and an enemy of the poor. This view is illustrated in the Ruhr where we see the influence of the powerful steel trust of Nance using the government to its own advantage. On the other hand, the German government is employing the trade unions to vitiate the force of the French, not through actual strikes, but by a withdrawal of efficiency. The situation in the Ruhr", the speaker pointed out, "is an excellent example...
...trail of the press agent, which leads from the daily story about Charles Chaplin and Pola Negri...