Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendly visit of historical importance." Nominee Thomas without a permit addressed 4,000 in the plaza: "This is not a political meeting, but a class in history. Next Monday your Superintendent of Public Education, William S. Vare, will introduce a distinguished historian, Herbert Clark Hoover, who will discuss wild life on the Rapidan...
Whether Professor Sherrington or Russia's Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1904 Nobel Laureate in Medicine) is the world's greatest physiologist is one of those useless points scholars like to discuss. Neurologists argue for Professor Sherrington. Harvard's Harvey Gushing defers to him, his laboratory at Oxford is a shrine. Everyone who meets him, who hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When...
...been summoned to the University office, where many documents were laid before him. These indicated that he was not a Romanoff, that his current name was unknown at Eton or Oxford, and that he had bilked many students, professors, and tradespeople. "Gentlemen," replied Mike, "I must decline to discuss the matter...
...characteristics and fifteen others rate the same student by means of questionnaires. The result of these psychological tests is a personality "photograph" which gives the Director otherwise unobtainable knowledge upon the student's attitude, disposition, and capacity. All students whose averages fall into the lowest quarter are invited to discuss with the personnel director a program of development. In a three-year period, such a group rison above the average, for by per cent of the students cooperate eagerly...
Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, is coming to speak shortly after the first of the year. He will discuss the need for fundamental changes in the field of industrial relations...