Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that at the end of that time their relative strength to Japan will be just about what it is now: Britain has an estimated 2,000,000 tons of seagoing strength, the U. S. 1,750,000, Japan about 1,200,000-roughly a ratio of 100-85-58.* Except for the slight lag of the U. S. behind Britain (which has always existed), this is the famous 5-5-3 ratio set by the Washington Naval Treaty way back in 1922. The Law of Naval Races having held good for 17 years, the next...
...year-old James D. Preston is a familiar figure to Washingtonians. An accomplished woodworker, he has designed the sets for most recent Gridiron Club shows. A ringer for Neville Chamberlain, he impersonated the British Prime Minister in the last Gridiron show with no make-up except an umbrella. Last week Jim Preston's long and honorable career reached an appropriate climax. He accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood as technical adviser on Director Frank Capra's forthcoming Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...
...Professor Mather desired most, methods of analysis and the tools with which to solve problems by himself. If this were done the methodology would be much like that of mathematics, and even according to Dr. Mather's conception equally good training for the mind. But at the present time, except for a few isolated instructors, the Economics department fails to do this. Instead, the theories worked out in great detail by the most eminent economists are thrust before the student, and he is asked to memorize them. Whereupon, he proceeds to do so and waits hopefully for the exam...
Personal interviews with House representatives will again be required before the applications can be filed. These representatives will be available from March 20 until April 13 except for the Easter recess...
...rarely are the crystal springs of Henry Purcell's music tapped. There is a great feast of choral, instrumental, and harpsichord music which is never served to moderns except in isolated events such as the Lowell House production of the opera-play, "King Arthur." And this is in spite of his unquestioned genius: of the simple and dignified charm of all his works, of the amazingly conceived and thrillingly beautiful harmonic progressions which could be surpassed only by those of J. S. Bach...