Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore it is a clear if paradoxical fact that, although there are fewer members of the Communist Party of Russia than there are Communists in Germany, yet the whole number of Russians who vote* must and do vote Communist, whether or not they profess Communism. Of course the number of Russians who do profess Communism, and in that sense only are "Communists," is many times greater than the number of Germans who vote the Communist ticket...
...Deweyites it is clear that to teach children formulae by rote is almost as ridiculous as teaching them the incantations of medieval wizards. The schoolroom must be a place where the child is intelligently encouraged to dynamically project its ego in discovering...
...complications of the cluttered plot were sometimes sufficient to halt the action of the play. Yet by virtue of its clear-eyed perception as well as its naivete, the play was convincing and funny. Moreover it was well acted, especially by Charles Eaton who played the mop-eared little brother to the heroine...
While the difficulty of obtaining conclusive figures was manifest, the expression of varied opinions was often both clear and emphatic. A few Seniors felt that the present requirements were on the whole beneficial--that even if a student coming to Harvard had no particular interest in languages the requirement of an elementary knowledge was stimulating and broadening, while the man who passed the reading requirement in a language was generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher...
...theories crystallized into lectures. His distinguished friends urged him to publish, his scientific spirit urged him to accumulate more data. In 1628 a slim volume of 72 pages with two plates of diagrams came out under his name-72 pages of clear, logical, dignified exposition in which the whole existing theory of the blood was demolished. Homer, Aristotle, Plato, every village barber who had ever breathed a vein had known that the blood moved but until the hawkeyed Harvey, no one knew...