Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been a growing conviction among educators of late--a common conviction which has almost assumed the proportions of a trend--that this process has exceeded its proper limits. Even Mr. Hutchins and Mr. Conant, who are more comfortable glaring at each other across a ring, stand united on this point. Specialization, so they say, has gone too far when each separate field loses its meaning. Scholars have lost the true perspective; they no longer perceive the vital relations between the individual branches of learning. Education has become a meaningless chaos of information...
...hinted last week when the Hungarian Foreign Minister was one of the small and distinguished party-including the Japanese and Italian Ambassadors-which shared Herr Hitler's triumphant arrival in Berlin (see col.3). Nicholas Horthy, Hungary's Regent, was scheduled to meet Fuhrer Hitler soon to discuss "common problems," and speculators wondered whether His Serene Highness might not find it expedient to deliver his country into the trust of Adolf Hitler, just as President Emil Hacha of Czechoslovakia did last week...
...Hitler announced receipt of a telegram from Dr. Jozef Tiso, for two days stooge President of newly "independent" Slovakia. "In supreme confidence in you," it said, ". . . the Slovak State places itself under your protection." With equally supreme confidence in himself, Adolf Hitler swallowed Slovakia whole. Now Germany had a common border with Carpatho-Ukraine, which Hungary announced she was annexing...
...grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia. Long have Poland and Hungary wanted a common border for protection against Germany. Last fall, when Czecho-Slovakia was amputated, they almost got it. Last week, when Adolf Hitler wiped Czechoslovakia off the map, they...
...list of investment certificate holders. Next they set up a company called State Guaranty Corp., peddled its preferred stock to Pacific States' certificate holders. Odell acted as fiscal agent, taking a 20% commission on these sales, thus getting enough money to purchase control of State Guaranty's common stock. And with the money it raised State Guaranty bought up all the capital stock of Pacific States...