Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chosen this subject for his maiden Senate speech. Mr. Taft's party floor leader, Oregon's McNary, asked a quorum call, to which 88 Senators responded. So the G. O. P.'s leading Senate freshman had a good audience as he began in a clear but colorless voice: "Mr. President, I understand...
...King of Swing, was playing on the stage at the Shubert Theatre. Within shagging distance, at the neighboring Paramount, was Artie Shaw, young pretender to the throne, and his band, which in six months has zoomed to fame on the strength of a few rousing records. A clear-cut battle for supremacy was forecast: the theatres are of approximately equal size; each was showing a Grade B film; and the acts accompanying the bands were similar. Both leaders are ace clarinetists...
...psychologist, expert on educational movies and onetime theology instructor. Dr. May, who has been with the Institute since 1931 and its director since 1935, found that scientists are individualists, hard to team up, harder still to hold to a program of research. Moreover, the Institute had no clear program. Some individual divisions, notably Dr. Gesell's, turned up much valuable data, but the Institute as a whole wandered all over creation. Yale's famed Anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller sneered at the whole affair...
...very important guide to Nazi policy, and a clear reflection of the Fascist doctrine," was the way Professor Langer characterized the new book, which was prepared from a rare first edition. Roynal and Hitchcock, the publishers, arranged for the money from the sale of "Germany's Bible" to be given to John Chamborlain of Harper's Magazine, and Alvin Johnson, director of the New School of Social Research. These men will arrange for the disposal of the money in connection with the Refugee Fund...
...clear after a year's trial that worldly fortune has not been an ardent suitor of President Conant's American Civilization Plan. As tangible evidence of the Plan's success, there were only eleven hardy undergraduates, who filed in to take the Bliss Prize examination last November. True, it has made some striking contributions: a notable reading list in history, a series of brilliant lectures, a group of earnest scholars who have enriched the Harvard community. Yet it has had meagre success in the attainment of a primary goal, which was to lure students into the realms of extra-curricular...