Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the leadership of men like Senator Borah the American people have gradually been forced to the realization that a great deal of money is being spent every year in attempting to infuse them with a definite set of ideas subconsciously through various methods. The protest has not come because of any direct activity of this nature but due to the fact that a great deal of it has been carried on underground...
...introduced him and said: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous age. What do you think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
...student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work," is the opinion of Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia who is strongly in favor of the plan. A Columbia student will be permitted to take one or possibly two such courses and it is thought that they will serve an excellent purpose...
Other researches in progress deal with the problem of the safe landing of airplanes in thick weather an electric-wave technique which is new being used in an attack on the problem of cancer and the commercial application of electric oscillations as a means of standardizing the thickness of paper and rubber during their manufacture...
...colony was founded (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926) by 1,743 Mennonites from Canada. Of these, 200 have returned to Canada and 175 have died. Police or civil courts are considered superfluous by the Mennonites who deal with an offender simply by deciding at a religious mass meeting to boycott any brother who has seriously transgressed. Since the colony is 43 miles by ox cart from the nearest town, Puerto Casado, Paraguay, such boycotting is a most effective weapon of Justice...