Word: differences
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kerr's dismissal. He talked the case over at length with his Cabinet. Then he wrote to Postmaster General Brown: "I have never made any such suggestion as to this or any other public question in its relation to the conduct of Government employes. The fact that they differ with my views does not necessarily constitute 'political activity' under the law which forbids such action. In order that there may be no misunderstanding, I consider that Mr. Kerr should be reinstated in the postoffice service at once." General Brown ordered Clerk Kerr reinstated, though he declared...
...chorus leaves the stage the principal begins disrobing. Up to a certain point she will continue to take her clothes off so long as the audience whistles, claps and howls for it. Since the Depression the pulchritude of the strip artists and chorus has visibly increased. The Minsky acts differ from week to week almost solely in their titles, which run to punning. Last week's performance was called Eileen Dover From Aiken...
Blurbed The Carillon ("A National Quarterly of Verse") in its spring issue: "Theodore Roosevelt, Governor General of the Philippine Islands, claims that he cannot write poetry. The Carillon has been honored with ... his first contribution. We believe our readers will differ with 'T. R.' " Onetime explorer. Poet Roosevelt contemplates explorers, known & unknown, in On a Pass in Szchewan. Excerpts: Around its lie the snowfields, smooth and white...
...conclusion is that stars of different spectral classes cannot have evolved one from another, but must have been created simultaneously, and that their age is too short for any appreciable evolution having taken place. Finally, the observed recession of spiral nebulae, reflecting the phenomenon of the expanding universe, indicates a possible age of the extragalactic universe of a few thousand million years only. From all these facts we infer that probably the age of our universe does not differ very much from the age of the solar system, and that not very much more than 3000 million years have elapsed...
...been amply demonstrated by the success of several progressive institutions that what is really needed is not so much a general smattering of all knowledge as an emphasis on one special field accompanied by an understanding of its relation to other important subjects. Opinions may differ as to the efficacy of Dean Stoddart's plan but common sense would certainly dictate that a system similar to that which has proved so advantageous at Harvard should be given consideration by those who would conceive educational Utopias...