Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midyears the Undergraduate Faculty Committee will try to determine by personal interviews what progress its fifty-five tutees have made toward their immediate ends in view. . . . By giving a Cooperative Test in each subject and repeating the same type of test at the end of the year, an attempt will be made to gain a factual estimate of their improvement. In one of these three ways, the Undergraduate Faculty may be able to discover whether it is giving its tutees the benefits they want. Lawrence Lader, co-chairman Undergraduate Faculty Committee...
...used a thin needle, 1¼ inches long, which he passed through a tiny opening in the air-sac end of the egg. After he withdrew the needle, he sealed the hole with paraffin. In three or four days he removed the infected yolks, dried and ground them, diluted them in salt water, produced a remarkably virulent suspension of Rickettsiae, which lost none of its power when passed through ten series of eggs. "The technique," said Bacteriologist Cox, "is very simple, and permits a minimum of contamination." The simplicity of this operation should permit him to make thousands of doses...
...pianists' "touch": "So far as single notes are concerned it does not matter how [a pianist] strikes the key, so long as he strikes it with the requisite degree of force. . . . The tone quality will be the same whether he strikes it with his fingers or even the end of his umbrella...
Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
...short end of a heart-breaking 15 1/2 to 14 1/2 score, the Crimson grapplers gave a good account of themselves against Princeton Saturday afternoon in their first dual meet of the current season...