Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor's withdrawal. A return to the confusion at Babel was predicted if contractors, engineers, architects, et al. are once more obliged to deal separately with the conflicting claims and rules of union electricians, plumbers, masons, carpenters, steel workers...
Concluded Mr. Lloyd George: "I need hardly add that I never uttered many of the observations, some of them extremely foolish, attributed to me in these diaries. But that is the way of most diarists, and I have suffered a good deal in the last few years from a variety of them. Words used in jest are treated as if in earnest; words seriously used are torn from their context and therefore having a different meaning, the essentially qualifying phrases invariably being omitted; and then in the inevitable defects of human memory when sentences taken from conversations which lasted...
...question of revising the system at Harvard on a three year basis was first raised when Charles W. Eliot '53 was President of the University. Opinion was divided as to which policy should be pursued, and the issue gave rise to a great deal of discussion. The officers of the University considered the proposals made at that time, and finally the matter was put to a vote in a Board of Overseers meeting. The Overseers gave their approval to the four year plan as at present in force; that the three year case had many adherents among the members...
...Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...Gary system was installed by Superintendent William Albert Wirt, who last week was obliged to deal with the strikers. The system consists in a year-round school schedule for the purpose of fully utilizing school equipment; and in elective courses, elective vacations, informal grading and self-discipline-to promote mental initiative. In last week's strike, pupils who had presumably been thoroughly Garyized for the past several years, took the law into their own hands. Students of the Gary system recalled that one criticism of it was that it would decrease teachers' influence over pupils...