Word: exactments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, only a fraction of the size of this college, should nevertheless be of interest to Harvard students this year because of an experiment in education which is the exact opposite of the system here. Backed by President Hutchins of Chicago University, this institution is launching a compulsory curriculum based on the "Hundred Great Books" which, according to its authorities, are the foundation of all our knowledge and culture. It is, roughly, a chronological study of the arts and sciences of the ages, conforming to its supporters' idea of what is the basis...
...they were at the close of last season. The scouts spoke of the "catlike" ability of all American Brud Holland in tones of awe and they fairly sang the praises of the "ghost-runner" George Peck, who piled up most of the running back punt yardage, 162 to be exact...
Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...
...coast of Lower California and up the Gulf of California to Guaymas with pauses for dredging, diving, fishing. Although it begins with an account of Beebe's sensational discovery that there are snipefish on both the east and west coasts of the U. S.-a discovery whose exact scientific importance escapes the lay reader-it quickly gives way to discussions of Mr. Beebe's first deep-sea fishing, a comparison of the flight of pelicans and cormorants, a spirited defense of vultures and well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these...
LONDON -- Adolf Hitler suddenly opened the door to peace today, at almost the exact hour he had set to send his armies smashing into Czechoslovakia, by calling Europe's "big four" to meet in Munich tomorrow for a slowdown between the dictators and the democracies...