Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near the end of a year replete with such academic controversies as teaching vs research, tutoring vs daily work, Walsh-Sweezy-Feild vs permanent tenure and appointments, it is fitting that the Student Council should blossom forth with a report on Education at Harvard. One cannot but feel, as long as there are already so many whited sepulchres elbowing one another in obvious scholastic and social discomfort in this friendly-or-feudal community, that maybe the Council has hit upon the whole root of the evil--for if Harvard is not essentially designed for education, three centuries of Faculty...
...leaven of change at the War's end left the peasants in possession of 95% of Russia's cultivated land. They held it while the harvests fell to 58% of their pre-War average, worked it in 25,000,000 homesteads until the drive to collectivize the farms began in 1929. The first Five-Year Plan called for a 20% collectivization in 1930. But when lower taxes, credit, use of farm machinery, did not move the kulaks, the more prosperous peasants, the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" was decreed on Jan. 5, 1930. Thereafter...
Light from the most distant of the external galaxies, when broken up into its component colors by a prism or grating, is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, indicating that the galaxies are retreating in all directions.* For them, the apparent velocity is roughly proportional to the distance. But among the nearest galaxies, this ratio does not hold. The Milky Way appears to be approaching some, receding from others. To isolate this motion, Dr. Hubble had to allow for and discount the sun's own movement within the Milky Way-since he was perforce using the solar...
...story of a noble Austrian family who get in dutch after Anschluss, it tells of a beautiful princess who, to save her brother's life, agrees to marry a brutal Nazi Commissioner, of a sly old grandfather who has the winning card up his sleeve. In the end the harassed nobles get safely across the frontier-into Ruritania...
...decked Clipper landed in the harbor at Horta, in the Azores. Delaved more than six hours while swamped Horta postal employes stamped 23,000 letters, she got to Lisbon 26½ hours after leaving the U. S. From there the Clipper made an easy hop to the end of the line at Marseille...