Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sliced sausages, always a favorite dish of Junkers on their country estates, were set before Their Majesties at luncheon. Cooking at Neudeck is of the simplest, with an emphasis on boiled potatoes, home-made cheese and common greens. Oranges for dessert are rated a treat, served peeled and sliced. As...
The article, entitled "Degrees, Prizes and Honors", deals with the relative merits of the European and American systems of awarding degrees and the greater emphasis on academic accomplishment that is found among the students of European universities.
EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND POLITICS SINCE 1815-Erik Achorn-Harcourt, Brace ($5). Big (879 pp.) history, "new style," of Europe from 1815 to 1933, with special emphasis on post-War Europe.
"They are liberal without being icy. They are independent without deserting Christianity. They are socially-minded without becoming faddists. . . . They are experimental and opportunist without scattering and fighting the air. They are progressive without becoming latitudinarian. . . . Instead of so much emphasis on soul saving, the church must direct its attention...
Education does not mean the ability to lamas a large number of facts but the ability to correlate and understand intelligently what the facts mean and their relative importance. Students who have the ability to learn and recall minute details and unrelated data without any attempt at creative thinking or...