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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps be carrying coals to Newcastle to point out that proctoring examinations is at best a difficult business. For at a time when students nerves are on the ragged edge, when Cambridge town reminds one of the fiery furnace of Biblical fame, and when the fate of a course or a career hangs in the balance of a short three hours, it seems obvious that the college officials must use kid gloves in handling the undergraduates, if the best results in the examinations are to be obtained. And kid gloves have not been much in evidence in the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE THE POLICE | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...partial operation. These as well as Youngstown plants which were held by company maintenance men, were soon virtually in a state of siege. The size and isolation of the plants, which made sit-down strikes virtually impossible because of the difficulty of provisioning strikers (TIME, March 1), made equally difficult the job of feeding company men in the plants. Soon Republie had airplanes shuttling back and forth, landing in the yard of one plant, dropping food on others where landing was not possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive off the company planes. Soon feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes of the Week | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...required daily work makes it a difficult or at least inconvenient, field for the man with many outside activities, unless extra curricular work can with effort be done on schedule. Also, the field cannot be recommended to those who are not certain they like mathematics. However, for those who do like the subject, and have not experienced difficulty with the theory of mathematics they have met in school and Freshman year, it is an opportunity for much pleasure and profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

Second concerns the question of ink and handwriting. It would, of course, be ridiculous to think of bringing a different color ink to class for each question. So we will direct our attention to the handwriting. It would be too difficult for a student to concentrate on answering a question, keeping an eye on the next man's paper, trying to look innocent, and also changing his handwriting for each question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

...much use in the companies' campaign against the genuine insurance counselor. Efforts to convict a Manhattan counselor not long ago under he New York anti-twisting law were soon thwarted by the State Supreme Court, a reversal which led to revision of the law to make things difficult for all counselors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Protection v. Investment | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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