Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What new evidence had convinced the Treasury that Soviet convicts worked the Soviet spruce forests, U. S. Commissioner of Customs Frank Xavier Alexander Eble refused to reveal. Unable to investigate conditions for itself the Treasury had obviously accepted as substantial proof affidavits from independent observers, labor camp refugees, casual visitors. Under the Treasury's order an importer can bring in Soviet lumber and pulpwood only if he establishes by a preponderance of evidence that these commodities are produced by free labor-an almost impossible requirement...
...years out of Harrow, joins the colonial army on New Year's Eve, 1905. The book, then, is a chronicle of the experiences of an Anglo-Indian Army officer over a period of years. Put in that way, nothing could seem more tedious and dull. Yet, the casual reader who has scrupously avoided, perhaps through laziness, the countless "Mother Indias" and now watches the columns of the daily press with some dismay, can be assured that the "Bengal Lancer" has come closer to India than any of his predecessors. Lowell Thomas, no mean adventurer himself, said: "I have read several...
...perfection, educators are constantly striving to improve native processes and standards. All plans are worth the attempt, but emphasis should not be placed on those that are for the most part peripheral. To imbibe and understand foreign manners and customs a protracted residence abroad is essential, for the merely casual intercourse with the scattered cross-sections to be found in this country results in a superficial knowledge at best. However, if the fundamental elements of improved instruction and student concentration are stressed the finished product of American Institutions would be more highly developed. There would then be less need...
This is true in regard to certain aspects of non-academic life which are intrinsically worth while in as much as they tend to develop the mind by stimulating intellectual curiosity. In this category fall the unrequired reading and casual interchange of ideas in conversation with others. However, if Professor Phelps means only the more active and competitive forms of outside activity his statements are rather strong...
These figures are in Mansfield's opinion even more striking to the casual observer when he considers that the courses at Harvard deal in a general fashion with the principles of the common law, aiming at fitting the students for practice under the most varied circumstances, while some of the other schools focus their attention primarily on preparation for the Massachusetts Bar Examination...