Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lunch-stuffed sufferers who think a cut inadvisable. During the second half-year the same lectures are handed out again, though the course is supposed to last a whole year. There is no textbook. The lectures are often good, particularly those delivered by Mr. Davis. Most of them, however, consist either of the commonplaces necessarily known to anyone who can pass an entrance exam with 595 or else of the reading of student themes for instruction by bad example. The former could be well taken care of by a textbook and the latter horror should be mercifully eliminated. Since...
...Basra, Iraq's main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it ("The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports, aerodromes and means of communication...
...Army, no longer using the Alpha test, plans to substitute in its place the General Classification Test which abandons the old Alpha principles and concentrates on determining special potentialities of soldiers. More simplified, the new tests consist of questions in recognizing numbers, knowledge of enough vocabulary to understand orders, and judgment of distances and spaces requiring powers of deduction...
Along with the inauguration of the new executive board came the announcement of a new competition for the program and production boards of the Network. The competition will consist mainly of announcing and program preparation, including the writing of scripts, and is open only to Freshmen and Sophomores. All potential David Sarnoffs in these two classes are invited to turn up at the Network's Sheppard Hall studios on Holyoke Street this Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, when details of the competition will be explained. No previous experience is necessary...
...order to enlarge the field of law that is taught and to develop new techniques and disciplines of study, the Seven-year Program will consist of three years of regular college work, which will be strictly limited as to the subjects to be taken; the fourth and fifth years will consist of the regular first two years of the Law School; and the sixth and seventh years will be equally divided between the Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...