Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that the class of student that is distinctly not fitted for tutorial work is the class of those who go through college on the border-line between probation and low-standing. Their interests are not academic enough to metivate them to independent work, and their time is preoccupied with the effort of trying to keep out of trouble in course examinations. Unless tutorial were made a system of coaching for course work (which God forbid), it will never engage the interests of such students sufficiently to justify the time and expense that it now involves...
...from Fort Russell, Tex. to Kentucky, Tom Connally, Texas' long-haired, small-footed Senator, raced to Secretary Hurley to protest "this arbitrary, autocratic and unwarranted action." He was, he said, "coldly and bluntly told that it was no function of the Federal Government to protect the U. S. border from raids, revolutions, thieves and cut-throats." Back in the Senate last week Senator Connally charged that the War Department was concentrating its forces near the larger cities. "The Secretary of War," exclaimed the Senator, "with a glitter of fear in his eye, referred to Reds and possible Communists that...
...College. Princeton and Yale. In addition to these scheduled contests plans are being made for a trip sometime in the spring when the team will travel to meet some of the other. New England colleges and possibly go into Canada to take on one or two institutions across the border...
Other changes included a shift of the independent Alien Property Custodian to the Department of Justice, Agriculture's Weather Bureau to the Commerce Department, and Labor's immigration border patrol to the Treasury's Coast Guard...
...smuggling thousands of Bibles across the Russian border by night!" cried Mr. Fetler. "The Russian people are adopting religion more rapidly than in any other country in the world...