Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain detailed reports from a young man's school, from his family, or from outside individuals who know him well. Personal interviews, the best guide of all, are almost never required. Little attempt is made to obtain data on a student's background, his adjustability, his ability to get along with his contemporaries or his emotional make-up, and as a result many young men are "misfits" in college. The problems of a University like Harvard are vastly different from those of family and school in Tulsa. The capacity to receive high grades in the latter place is not necessarily...
Better-Speech pupils get 15 pamphlets providing the equivalent of eighth-grade instruction in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary. They are told that it is not so elegant to say "we couldn't get along without the typewriter" as "the typewriter is an indispensable office appliance...
...Commission functions, the Commission has no power of censorship, but this power and responsibility rests squarely and unavoidably upon the licensee. . . . Licenses are granted without any compensation by the licensee to the Government and solely for the puroose of serving the public interest, and, hence, the broadcaster must accept, along with the privilege granted, a definite, inescapable and high public trust in the use of the facilities licensed...
...Commission has decided to take no further action at this time than the writing of this letter in condemnation of the program. However, upon application for renewal of the licenses of the stations carrying this broadcast, the Commission will take under consideration this incident along with all other evidence tending to show whether or not a particular licensee has conducted his station in the public interest...
...each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...