Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete approval of your editorial in Thursday's CRIMSON entitled "Two Years." Although History 1 is one of the hardest courses in the College, especially among those open to Freshmen, it is one of the most beneficial. It is more valuable than any other one course. But it should cover more material and count as two courses to be most helpful. Columbia's "Contemporary Civilization" and "Science Survey" courses should be reproduced here. For those who are not concentrating in science, the latter course would be more profitable than one year in some one science. The former course...
...under the heading "Dead Flower," you quote a remark of mine to the effect that TVA is "the only genuinely socialistic project in the New Deal-a beautiful flower in a garden of weeds." I should guess that you have taken your quotation from the front cover of a widely circulated pamphlet by the National Coal Association and that both of you think, as you certainly suggest to your readers, that the "weeds" to which I referred were other provisions of the New Deal, in legislation and administration...
...listed as a "Science Survey," for example--have been taken by many students with very satisfactory results. At Harvard, while there are double courses such as German B. there are no two year surveys. Professor Merriman frequently complains that one year is too short a period of time to cover all the material in History 1. Students often receive the same impression form other courses with a similarly broad field...
Striving to cover up Nazidom's most spectacular admission of failure to master German economic problems, Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter, printed these brave words: "We National Socialists do not believe in economic laws. We believe in the creative ability of our race. Because we believe in this power of our race, economics is subject to our creative ability...
...keyboard so quickly and completely, make the treble sound clear and strong while the bass poured out a seething undercurrent. Compared with most pianists, Paul Wittgenstein has a fairly small hand. His trick was to train it to lightning speed, to develop his pedal technique so that he could cover transitions gracefully and subtly, give a solid, two-handed effect...