Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both men, members of the crew, had just finished a class under Bradford Washburn which deals with the surveying of mountains. In the absence of any Alps in Cambridge, they decided to penetrate into the attic of the Museum and survey the surrounding roof-tops...
Comrade Ryvin, a new official of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, told the meeting of the following case: 'Once,' he said, 'we worked out the rates of remuneration of a certain class of collective-farm workers. It was an important and urgent document. We took it to the Vice Commissar for his approval. While, however, we were giving him our explanatory comment on the document, he fell asleep...
...first year under the Katz management Gruen made $606,000. Last year (ending March 31, 1938) net profit was $726,000. Having retired all the com pany's debentures with these profits, be sides $150,000 worth of Class A preferred stock, Ben Katz last week decided to pay off Gruen's remaining $839,000 of Class A and B preferred by issuing new common stock. With a 1938 sales record that equals last year's, and with the market in the mood for new financing, he hopes to sell 150,000 shares at a price that...
...more logical argument for Dartmouth's loss, therefore, would seem to be that the Big Green is not one of the east's top teams today. A good early season team, and a flashy and "break" outfit, the Blaikmen of 1938 are not by any means in a class with Cornell (who beat them), Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, Holy Cross, or Villanova. Right here at home we have the obvious fact that now the Harvard which won its last four games and the earlier Harvard which lost only by a touchdown to Dartmouth are two very different elevens indeed...
...make every effort to teach, to clarify the subject to even the slowest student; on the other hand there are those who merely lecture, treating any question as an inexcusable interruption. Of course the mathematical genius can learn under any system, but for the average student the question in class is the most important single factor in making the subject understandable...