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Word: cial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lies in the University's system of advisers--faculty members who help Freshmen adjust themselves to college life. An adviser is supposed to steer his Freshman along the right track, whenever necessary sending them to a supervisor for general guidance. If such assistance does not help, Harvard's o cial view is that the student isn't college calibre, and he ought to get out--not go to a tutoring school, cram for a few days or hours, and squeeze through examinations by the aid of his pocketbook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...under certain conditions cause undue hard ship and financial sacrifice and loss result ing from untimely sale and liquidation of assets of estates to provide for the pay ment of such taxes. The increased estate taxes upon the estates of decedents are devoted in large part to Governmental so cial programs. Under the circumstances now existing, I deem it advisable to cancel and revoke the bequests made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Last Thoughts | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs believed in political revolution by votes, not in physical revolution by torch and bomb. Significance. Debs was a character who stirred violent emotions. A judi cial appraisal of him by a biographer is well nigh impossible. Biographer Coleman presents him in a favorable light, popular izes him, tries to preserve a fair balance of fact. But his personal admiration for Debs too often gets control and sweeps him into passages of sloppy panegyrics. The story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leftward | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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