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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The burden of this criticism must be shouldered by a lecture system which operates on the theory that students are constitutionally incapable of absorbing facts from books, and that a Professor must therefore deliver two or three lectures a week in the effort to bolster up whatever opinions he may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LECTURE SYSTEM | 10/17/1933 | See Source »

Mr. Reed, and his fellow Republicans in Chicago, are angry because they had to surrender the key to their enfiefed barn before the first of the month. The point they miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/17/1933 | See Source »

Risk there was none. The Department of Justice on Sept. 10 had ruled that, although the 18th Amendment remains on the statute books until 36 States ratify the 21st, "no prosecutions will be instituted . . . provided the 'if and when' clause as a condition precedent to Repeal is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: If & When | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

In McAllen, Tex., Charles J. King, undertaker's assistant about to be married, was offered by his employer as long a honeymoon as he wished with all expenses paid, if he would deliver a corpse to Stillwater, Minn, in the course of it. Charles J. King & bride set off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Nothing is commoner than to hear the young instructor, currying for favor, deliver a long tirade on the tyrrany of examinations, and the mark system generally. "Gentlemen, they represent a tribute you pay to the great red machine. They are a nuisance to everybody; they serve no educational purpose; they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE HAPPY FAMILY | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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