Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan here proponed is severely competitive. The Committees does not seek in conceal that fact, but rather in make it clear, and especially in the competitors. It would hope that a selective system by which the University calls more than it can choose, and profits by their temporary services, may still afford a coveted opportunity to young scholars and teachers an opportunity to pursue the vocation of scholarship, to require experiences in teaching, and to establish themselves permanently in their profession whether at Harvard, or, through the good offices of Harvard, elsewhere...
TIME does not make clear whether it is expressing editorial opinion or quoting Harvard's eminent Conant when it says, "teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession," teachers know too little about their subject matter, too little about children, too little about social conditions, and teachers "don't like children." TIME views as "alarming" the state of ignorance of America's million teachers, condescendingly admits that teaching "is an honorable profession" (as though anyone doubted it) and goes on to say that the 100,000 youngsters who begin preparation for teaching each year...
...anti-insurance group, in spite of the fact that they outvoted the progressives, three-to-one, could not lay clear claim to majority support. Members of the pro-insurance group felt that a number of doctors, who might have sent in mailed ballots voting for their side, did not vote at all because of a stipulation that the ballots must be delivered to the society's headquarters in person...
Passengers with hangovers became clear headed when they began breathing a mix ture of 20% oxygen, 80% nitrogen. Others became violently airsick when they took off their masks, quickly recovered when they put them on again. All showed normal pulse and respiration rates, were able to eat comfortably without taking off the masks...
This week, for the first time, appeared Gouverneur Morris' complete diaries (edited by his great-granddaughter) covering the years in France (1789-1793) which blackened his name for a century and a half. Therein Morris does more to clear his later reputation than others have managed to do for him. It is true that Louis XVI's ministers wore a trench to his door. "This Morning," runs a typical entry, "employ myself in preparing a Form of Government for this Country." He was mistaken in his methods, blinded by vanity and ignorance of the French common people...