Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Killed (257 to 122) the anti-lynching bill introduced by Chicago's Arthur W. Mitchell, only Negro in the U. S. Congress. After a day during which Negroes crowded into the gallery to witness the first filibustering of the present session, southern Representatives, opposed to any kind of...
Forty European and U. S. travelers on a world cruise stepped off the S. S. Reliance at Tientsin last week, entrained for Peiping to visit its famed Temple of Heaven. As they drove up to its mellow walls they saw thousands of Chinese crowded before the Temple gabbling excitedly. Soon...
The best steeplechasers are bred in Ireland. From England come literary thoroughbreds. Virginia Woolf's stepgrandfather was William Makepeace Thackeray. Half the most scholarly families in Eng-land-the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys-are related to her. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Cornhill Magazine and the...
Two things in the main, are responsible for the tempest in the teapot. First is their well known political views. But "concluding appointments" are given daily to men in all fields, when crowded departments hold out no chances for them to rise to professorial rank. There is no reflection on...
The second reason that the matter has been kept in the public eye is because the University issued an ill timed and impolitic statement declaring that the decision was reached solely on the grounds of "teaching capacity and scholarly ability". Although the University's record is practically perfect in placing...