Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best-selling autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain tried to "describe and assess the fate of a young generation ignorantly and involuntarily caught" in the chaos of the War and post-War years. Last week this earnest British writer offered a novel with a theme no less ambitious but a good deal less sharply defined: the relation of the feminist movement, the War and changing social standards to "the private destinies of individuals." The result is another of those curious hybrid volumes that have recently become numerous in English writing-a long (601 pages), formless book, half-tract and half...
Harder to assess, the Commission found, were the spiritual ravages of Depression. Educational and vocational opportunities shrunk together. Hard times struck the nation's young folk with a cruel one-two punch. Last year, in the traditional Home of Free Education, only 60% of the youth of high-school age stayed in school while only 15% beyond high-school age squeezed into college. The rest, thought the Commission's Director Homer Price Rainey, "constitute not only an employment but an education problem...
...Freethinkers' suit was brought to restrain St. Paul's Chapel from selling any more cards, to recover, on the ground of fraud, 20 ? paid for two such cards, to assess Trinity Corporation $5,000 punitive damages. Also the Freethinkers sought to have a tablet marking a pew that Washington used removed from the church. Trinity's defense was that, although the prayer was admittedly altered, there was no fraudulent intent since the postcards gave the source of the true text-W. C. Ford's Writings of George Washington...
...against political alliances or a third party the delegates last week granted Leader-lownsend and Clements full power to say which "friends" should get Townsend support and votes in 1936. The leaders also tightened their financial reins by getting a vote against sale of "unauthorized" literature, a vote to assess each Townsend Club of per month per member whether individual members pay up or not. Town-Clubs now number some 4,000 in 48 States, average 500 members apiece...
Circumspectly he stated: "It is altogether too soon to assess the ultimate value of the method. Weeks to months must elapse before we can determine if the cancer masses continue to show shrinkage and absorption till their complete disappearance. Clinical evidence so far leads us to think that such disappearance may occur. ... No supply of this solution will be made available until its value has been definitely proved. The manufacture and therapeutic use of this enzyme solution is comparatively simple, when thoroughly understood. We can be responsible for no results obtained by investigators who have not had special training." Such...