Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I asked him if this wasn't all slightly illegal on my part according to University regulations, he reassured me. "The only thing they don't like is groups of five or more." But what was the difference between this and the University's official tutoring bureau? "They don't guarantee you a decent grade. I can get you a B." And as for the official crackdown on tutee schools in 1940. "There was a lot of hypocrisy over at Harvard. If you're interested in journalism," he added, "it's a fascinating story...
...three-month CRIMSON investigation of the commercial cram bureau revival was initiated after discovery of a copy of a letter from Lester S. Cramer '30, sent to some of the College's social clubs and announcing readless "to provide tutoring for hour, mid-year and general examination in the major liberal arts studies...
...England has long been considered the center of learning in the United States, but after viewing the Crimson-Columbia basketball thriller at the Boston Arena Tuesday last, this bureau is convinced that the Midwest has swiped all the teaching honors in that sport's field...
...Government-financed observatory, Reber will have a fine new "telescope," made partly from captured German radar and specially designed for studying radio waves from the sun. (The Bureau of Standards has to be more or less practical with taxpayers' money; the practical project at the moment is a study of how solar waves affect radio transmission on the earth.) But Reber also intends to refine his own homemade apparatus and search the sky for more mysterious "somethings." Perhaps, in time, he can figure out what-and why-they...
...Submariner Denfeld's chief executive, Airman Radford will run the Navy's day-to-day operations while Denfeld fights its battles with Congress, the Budget Bureau and the White House. On second look, even the Navy's "Young Turks" conceded that it would be hard to find a better team...