Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mill. He worries about it because he knows and likes most of the men who will have to go, is popular with them. On the way home after work he hears a loudspeaker broadcasting a dispassionate critique of the Russian experiment; in the park he has a religious discussion with the deaconess who runs the mission across the street from his factory. He falls asleep on a park bench, has a nightmare from which he is wakened by one of his workmen, with whom he goes home to supper. They discuss the labor situation. When the efficiency expert finally takes...
There is, however, an additional side to English 10a. After each talk other students discuss, and usually argue about, what has been said. Then, too, a series of essays on contemporary problems is read and discussed, and in these two types of discussions nearly any man who is reasonably well acquainted with the affairs of the day will find a great deal that is worth while. It is an unusual opportunity to hear others' opinions, and this last is always a valuable experience...
...conference will open with a general meeting in the Ballroom, during which the speakers will be Edward Heinmann, Niles Carpenter and Robert S. Lynd. At 11 o'clock, following the speeches, the members will break up into Round Table groups to discuss aspects of the main topic. Professor Zimmerman will lead a seminar on "Research Policies Relevant to Reconstruction Programs." Other seminars will be conducted by Frank H. Hankins of Smith, M. C. Elmer of the University of Pittsburgh, William C. Casey of Columbia, and Albert Morris of Boston University...
...displeased with the interference of the University. He called off the rehearsal last night, but members of the Dramatic Club stated that they had no intention of discontinuing the play voluntarily. Today at 2 o'clock there will be a meeting of the Dramatic Club in Holden Chapel to discuss the problem of securing girls to take the parts left vacant by the Radcliffe girls. It was understood that debutantes are the most likely candidates...
...attitude by the "free will" behavior of electrons and photons. But there are two men who are at home on both the mathematical and experimental fronts and who, on the interpretative front, lift highly articulate voices to trace for interested laymen the whole reach of modern physics and to discuss its philosophical repercussions. They are Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Sir James Hopwood Jeans...