Word: coring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are many benefits to be derived from a period of study in a European university. Any man in broadened and matured by the necessity of adjusting himself to the life and customs of a foreign nation, where thought is centered around a core of practical philosophy considerably different from his own. The American student abroad has an excellent opportunity to develop the social and intellectual poise so necessary in later life. While the primary result of study in Europe is not definite in nature, as for example the factual knowledge which can be acquired at any good American university...
...core of the University's finances is the University's unrestricted income, from which the general overhead expenses are paid. It is estimated that during the next fiscal year there will be a shrinkage in the University's income of from...
...core of influence that has formed a constant purpose amid the changing size and shape of the University during President Lowell's regime, to use his own terminology, in the intellectual and social integration of Harvard College. Beyond the College this double emphasis has been carried out in the Graduate Schools. Ideals of high scholarship have been the result of combined alterations in the rules of administration and in material expansion...
...White House but rarely rises to defend Herbert Hoover from partisan attack. Privately criticized for failing to back up his chief, he was once reported to have snorted: ''How can you stand behind a man with St. Vitus's dance? A G. O. Politician to the core, he is forever busy with local matters-jobs for the faithful, greater use of Indiana limestone in public buildings, retention of the post office name at Santa Claus...
...large progressive vote can frighten a government controlled by vested interests into correcting at least its grosser delinquencies. Moreover, a strong Socialist vote will have the effect of consolidating the issues, which are not properly brought out by Democratic-Republican rivalry. It will give the conservative stand one core, instead of its separate and erratic spheres of action in the two old parties, and will make a vote for, or a vote against this stand, both more decisive...