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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specific questions under the four general headings of Scholarship, Character, Outside Activities, and Financial Need, would result in a critical estimate of the candidate's tutorial work, and useful comments on his intellectual qualities; it would be possible to ascertain more fully the extent of his participation in extra-curricular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE ON SCHOLARSHIPS | 3/19/1936 | See Source »

The "people's champions" in the Massachusetts legislature, when they placed the rule of compulsory loyalty oaths upon the faculties of innumerable educational institutions in their own state, were undoubtedly acting with the rightcous feeling that they were protecting the people against a huge impending danger. From now on teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POISONOUS NONSENSE | 3/19/1936 | See Source »

"Is wisdom the standard of excellence in the arts?" is the paraphrased title of tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DOES WISDOM SIGNIFY?" IS TITLE OF FROST TALK | 3/18/1936 | See Source »

The Country Doctor (Twentieth Century-Fox). From the moment that Mrs. Oliva Dionne astounded the world on May 28, 1934 by giving birth to quintuplets, it was apparent that the children, if they lived, were destined for a career in the cinema. Already seasoned performers in shorts and newsreels, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Shopgirl readers who were melted to delicious tears by Hans Fallada's mannikin novel of the depression, Little Man, What Now?, found his next book, The World Outside, much less to their liking. Last week they opened Once We Had a Child with mingled feelings of alarm. Their feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farmer | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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