Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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College officials attribute the decline in course papers to "administrative difficulties." Few professors, they say, can afford the time necessary to assign original topics, assist students individually, and mark papers. But if hour exams, whenever practicable, were abolished, course staffs would be able to give more time to going over long essays. Opponents of the course thesis point out that 20 years ago Harvard went to extremes in demanding written work. Then every history course required either a thesis or essay, and much of the work submitted was more hastily thrown together than an English A assignment; many papers were...
...again Friend Carnegie was helpful in getting the material into shape, and presently Thomas headed for England, where he wowed the Britishers with his tales of Lawrence in Arabia, Allenby in Palestine. So popular was the Lawrence show that Thomas was able to travel round the world with it, assign Carnegie and lesser vocal lights to handle four second-string companies in England. Altogether, Thomas delivered "With Lawrence in Arabia" over 4,000 times, to over 3,000,000 people, made over a million dollars from it. By product from his lecture was the book With Lawrence in Arabia...
Five days later, local boards will assign a serial number to each registrant (thousands will have the same number). Then follows lottery day, when a suitable dignitary (Franklin Roosevelt, for instance) will reach into the same glass bowl from which the first World War I number (258) was drawn in 1917, will pull out one of thousands of jumbled capsules. Each capsule will contain a numbered slip. Registrants holding the drawn numbers will be the first to receive detailed questionnaires, probing into every aspect of jobs, dependents, special qualifications, reasons (if any) for requesting exemption. Other lotteries will follow...
...surprise of Government followers and crowds of spectators, no Al-mazanístas appeared and the Congress proceeded without disturbance. Amid cheers the Chamber President announced that the electoral college had been legally installed. Then a new Chamber President was elected and a seating committee was appointed to assign no out of 170 Deputy seats to Avila Camacho men. The Senate chose a similar committee to seat 58 claimed Camachista Senators...
...must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations, but there was a victory inside this deliverance which must be noted...