Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Barkley insisted that not war talk but work undone was the best reason for not adjourning. Before war comes to Europe, not after, Congress should clear its calendar, said he-a calendar that is indeed well clogged...
...Fair it is. Representative Woodrum's committee to investigate WPA before voting its 1940 money (TIME, April 20, et seq.), sent to New York City two Treasury engineers to look into the costs and efficiency of WPA projects compared to private projects. The Treasury's men made clear that WPA's monument to itself is a monument also to expense...
...break even. In the three months it has been running, it has averaged only 33,610. Last week it borrowed another $750,000, bringing to $3,250,000 its borrowings from banks and industry in addition to $6,000,000 subscribed by loyal Californians. It was clear something had to be done. It was. Plump, pompous Chief Director Harris De Haven Connick, who had held his $17,500 job for over a year, was fired...
...realistic. External aspects are emphasized in a way which does not allow for an after-reverberation in the mind of the audience of the theme which the artist is trying to present. The artist, in attempting to express himself in such a fashion that his idea will be made clear to the onlooker, throws his whole subjective self into his creation with the result that not a great deal is left to the imagination of the spectator. Most great artists have left a slight gap between themselves and those who are receiving their paintings, thereby allowing for the expansion...
...tutoring in toto; there are, according to the majority opinion, a variety of cases where tutoring is a fair and ethical expedient. For the lame, the halt, and the blind, it is quite proper. The man who has been sick and the "slow but honest" student have a clear right to extra guidance. So also the extra-curricular man who values his activities more than his academics. Nor should a student be denied tutoring as a supplement to the work he has done for himself. All but the most exceptional scholars need aid in reviewing; if the University itself will...