Word: clearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...denying that the ultimate goal of the Harvard tutorial system is identical with the Oxford system, Assistant Professor R. M. Eaton has merely repeated and emphasized the attitude which President Lowell made clear in his Annual Report for 1925-1926. In that document the President said that "courses are an invaluable means to the end and there is no intention of abandoning them in favor of the more exclusively tutorial system of Oxford and Cambridge." In view of this position, those who have heretofore looked upon the Harvard plan as but the rudimentary shoots of an eventual Oxford replica...
...Weather Clear, Track Fast. Anything that can be as tragic as are slow race horses to so many people can also be funny if viewed from a slightly different angle. Horse race plots are always simple, too, and need not weigh heavily on the gallery's mind. This one, as always, tells how the villain tried by treachery to keep the hero's horse from coming first. As an undistinguished fable of the race track, salted smartly with curious slang and nimble humor, the farce does well enough. Jum Bubbles, Negro, inserted as a tap dancer, stole...
...held low and to the left. The bull's head was down as he watched the muleta. . . . He felt the sword buckle as he shoved it in, leaning his weight on it, and then it shot high in the air, end-over-ending into the crowd. Manuel had jumped clear as the sword jumped. The first cushions thrown out of the dark missed him. Then one hit him in the face, his bloody face looking towards the crowd. . . . 'Thank you,' he said. 'Thank you.' Oh, the dirty bastards. ... As he tripped on a cushion he felt the horn go into...
...invention is for aviators flying in difficulty. The aviator presses a button which releases compressed air which blows him from his plane. Clear of the plane, the aviator presses another button, which releases another can of compressed gas, which inflates his suit. By spreading his arms he can float to land...
...Business School buildings last June Dean W. B. Donham said: "It requires little Imagination to feel a widespread social consciousness emerging from the chaos of individualism in this new profession of business--a social consciousness with its objective the sound evolutionary progress of civilization." Such a sentiment finds a clear exposition in the School's latest move." Thus are ambitions and theoretical premises translated into actual achievements...