Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's educational policy has been consistently toward fuller individual development for the student. For most men the language requirements have been an onerous and barren task. Any move tending to make them more liberal will be earnestly welcomed...
...flow lines into a good conductor can be readily detected, and even the effects of better conducting material at considerable depth can often be estimated with a fair degree of assurance. Of course, all masses of rock in the earth that are good conductors are not necessarily bodies. Barren graphitic slates rock beds soaked with salt water, or basic dikes might give effects not unlike more valuable bodies and skillful geological observation and interpretation of the evidence in terms of what is reasonable to expect must be made before satisfying conclusions can be drawn...
...Among other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich., and Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. C. The President received Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra...
...responding potently to the Dictator's plea for better, faster begetting (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante). It is not even enough that Italy now leads all Europe in surplus of births over deaths.* Brushing such trifling achievements aside, young, ardent Editor Carli continued, last week, his slashing indictment of barren thin ladies, set a relentless quota...
...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...