Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the tutor's point of view, the disadvantage of the tutoring schools is that, while certain people may now earn large sums by tutoring the large majority of those who would and could tutor are unable to get any work at all. The appointments in the schools are often made on the basis of friendship rather than merit. By having more legitimate private tutoring, and less group reviews, many more students would be given needed employment...
Last week the U. S. House of Representatives devoted an afternoon to discussing asthma, its cause and cure. Said Congressman Frederick Cleveland Smith of Ohio: "Mr. Chairman, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, is located a laboratory that puts out a certain medicine known as the Nathan Tucker Asthma Remedy. A Food and Drugs Act passed last year would compel firms of this sort to cease prescribing by making a diagnosis through the mails. . . . I have practiced medicine for a good many years and have myself prescribed this remedy many times. . . . I know physicians who use it themselves. Just before I left...
...reclaimed-dump site, including four of the fair buildings, will revert to the city as a park half again as large as Manhattan's famed Central Park and valued in the grandiloquent Whalen fashion at $100,000,000. New York State and City thus are guaranteed a certain tangible return on their money...
...Certainly neither you nor I, nor any other self-respecting Harvard student would be happy to see our faculty modeling its lectures after the pattern of the tutoring school's effective evening "cream," yet such would be the result if the remarks in your editorial were to be followed out logically. No, I hardly think that an outstanding faculty like that of our University could be interested in merely training people to answer certain specific questions culled from examinations of the past...
...arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite pleasing is the fact that some of the better-known artists, Benson, Macknight, Homer, and even Sargent, lose the lustre of their fame when their paintings are compared with those of certain younger, more obscure...