Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult, if not impossible, to set a general examination which would fairly test both types of students. This for many instances, in a sacrifice of the interests of the honor candidate. The examination under the present system must very with different subjects. Yet it seems very doubtful whether the en general examination can set as high stand. ard for honor work as the Tripos in England as long as it has to be prepared for the mediocre student...
...Sanctions, when organized in advance and consequently en masse, can prevent war. On the contrary the application of improvised Sanctions, that is partial and piecemeal Sanctions, may, by reason of their dubiousness, lead...
...Chapman Jr., son of the American Museum of Natural History's famed ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman's great-great-grandfather, and the smell of lilacs which Gladys Swarthout likes so much that she had it mixed in the shellac used on her furniture...
...with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary sizes and complete but compact sets of sacred vessels. (Continued...
Canadian Concessions. From Canada, Bargainer Hull had got special reductions or abolition of duties on 180 items of Canadian imports from the U. S. In addition he had got most-favored nation status, which the U. S. did not enjoy before. This not only enables foreign goods en route to Canada to be shipped without extra duty through U. S. ports. It also saves U. S. salesmen from paying duty on samples they carry into Canada. It also means that U. S. goods will pay as low rates of duty as the goods of any other nation (except British possessions...