Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armaments Conference has brought to Washington a notable assemblage of statesmen. In their wake, like a flock of gulls behind an ocean steamer, follows a motley array of attaches, unofficial representatives and newspaper correspondents. From this last group most of our impressions of the Conference must come, and on them to a great extent depends its favorable reception by the people of the countries involved. It it especially desirable, then, that their reports should be free from personal prejudice...
...also a fact that the games this fall have been harder than those of the average early-season schedule of any college in the country, A doubleheader as an opener, Holy Cross the next week, then Indiana, Georgia, Penn State, and Centre in succession--this is a formidable array and one which would tax the resources of any eleven in college ranks today...
...characteristic of our present-day educational reform that everything is made as easy as possible for the pupil. The effort of attention is reduced to a minimum by the employment of all sorts of devices for making the subject interesting. "Child psychology" with its array of "complexes" has driven from the field the older method of teaching by rote. We are further shifting the emphasis from the dry and musty Classics to the newer and more fascinating Sciences. But though we try to impart a great deal of information, it is against modern principles to demand the expenditure...
...rejuvenated five will test its strength against the Rhode Island State College team in Hemenway Gymnasium; Friday the scrapping Brown team will travel up from Providence for the return game, and next Monday the season will close, when the Center College five comes up from Kentucky with its array of football stars...
...many evils contributing to our present array of social problems, none is more dangerous than illiteracy, which not only is wide-spread in the United States, but is rapidly increasing. Many of our labor troubles can be directly traced to the appalling prevalence of this evil; it is largely responsible for the existence of our defective and criminal classes; it multiplies agitators and radicals; it is the cause of thousands of industrial accidents...