Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors are circulating through Austria that the Hapsburgs may be restored and a monster mass meeting of royalists was held in Vienna to which Chanceller Dollfuss gave his official blessing. Unfortunately, blessing his loving subjects will not be of much avail to little Dollfuss at this point; the royalist activities are not so indicative of Hapsburg as of Starhemberg strength. As might have been foreseen when Dollfusa surrendered to the Heimwher, his power is very shortly due to be curtailed and eventually to be abolished completely. Aside from the fact that the very organization of the Fascist party--which...
...Senior writing a thesis for honors, or pursuing a strictly graduate course, is given the privilege of access to the stacks in Widener. To avail himself of this he must obtain a certificate from his tutor, or from the professor in charge of the course, and present this certificate to the Superintendent of Circulation, who grants the permit for a limited time or number of visits...
Concluded the researchers: "If correspondence schools would set up personnel bureaus and avail themselves of measuring instruments whereby adult students could be guided to suitable courses, their courses of training would meet a sorely felt need in the field of adult education. Until they undertake this service, efforts of the hit-or-miss variety coupled with intensive advertising and sales campaigns must continue to brand most of these schools as merely profit-making institutions. And of more serious import, they are contributing to the formation of an unhappy and maladjusted citizenry...
...obvious that an improved advisory system is imperative; for the choice of concentration field, tutor, and House must all be made in the first year, before it is possible for the student to have formed a competent basis for judgment. An excellent tutor in Mathematics is of little avail to a man whose interest is primarily in Biology or English, concentrating in Mathematics because Math A was his easiest course during his Freshman year. When the problem of the "uninterested tutee" is one of the chief obstacles to the success of the tutorial system, it is pennywise and pound-foolish...
...avail. The amendment was voted down 54 to 36. The privilege of nearly upsetting the Administration's plans was reserved for Senator Wheeler who offered an amendment requiring the Government to buy up to 750,000,000 oz. of silver until a 16 to 1 price ratio was obtained.* The Wheeler amendment was defeated by just two votes...