Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politician, puckish Sir Thomas would undoubtedly alarm his more sober countrymen. Typical Beecham attitude: "It is safe to prophesy that the ideological lunatics who abound in every country will, both in the press and out of it, continue their unhappy endeavors to widen the breach between one country and another. I look forward, therefore, to a highly ironical and diverting climax to the current epoch of political myopia...
...work that he did under President Lowell in helping to create the tutorial system. This bold step toward personalizing education, so deeply needed here at Harvard, has given American colleges a standard, an example of which the University may well be proud. With large lecture courses broadening the breach between teacher and student, the tutorial system has done must to restore a better relationship between them. Throughout its infancy, riddled with children's diseases of any new system, the tutorial system has always found Professor Burbank an able pediatrician. The result is that the Department of Economics...
...prosecuting, fearful of laying itself open to the indignation of hard-boiled Federal Judges, and of public suspicion that it is using criminal inquiries as clubs to beat recalcitrant monopolists into a New Deal pattern. Last week, however, Harry Hopkins' Department of Commerce stepped into the advisory breach, announced a new Government service for harried antitrust case defendants...
...most important of his tenure, its purpose is to equalize educational opportunities among the states by grants from a federal fund and still refrain from interference with local policy. To tax one part of the country in order to support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools of the standard set elsewhere. In 1930 its farm population included 13 per cent of the nation's children, but its farmers produced only two per cent...
...French Government is perfectly free to refuse even a discussion of these problems as so far it has done with its too-often reiterated and perhaps categoric 'Nevers.' But will it not regret if the breach presently dividing the two nations becomes so wide that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to heal...