Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A giant version of the pneumatic cash carrier system familiar to most department store customers, the 8-inch tubes of the underground mail service resemble gas mains, the containers that glide through them at 30 m. p. h. are about the size of fire extinguishers. As there is no switching...
Monopoly? Homer Cummings and the Department of Justice have for the last few months been looking into the way the newsprint mills fix what to charge the publishers. Formerly newsprint prices fluctuated as restlessly as any lover of free competition could desire. But in more recent times (and consistently since...
The U. S. State Department almost certainly established the identity of Mr. & Mrs. Donald L, Robinson, who recently disappeared in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 27), as a Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Arnold Rubens; further clarified the case by disclosing that New York's luckless County Clerk Albert Marinelli, who resigned from...
Concurrent with Dean Hanford's statement that almost one-third of the upperclass college is concentrating in the social sciences comes the publication of five volumes on the subject of a liberal education. In stinging words Iowa's Norman Forester claims that students neither go to college to be educated...
Harvard's system concentration eliminates the "department store" of some universities. But at the same time this system presents the danger of concentration for concentration's sake; in time the presence of too many students in the social sciences may subvert Harvard's current idea of education to that of...