Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only candidates for honors, of course, who face this examination. But in this particular case, and probably in the case of a similar plan being adopted by other departments of instruction, there attaches to the examination the character of a qualifying test. Passage of this test admits one to the privilege of specialization, and implies a comprehension of a field of study so hastily covered that understanding deeper than that needed for a clever student to pass an examination is a doubtful quantity...
...shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such names as "Shock-Haired" and "Serious-Face". They will wonder if they realty said what he says they said...
...cannot but wonder if the preliminaries are truly sound. There are dangers inherent in the program. The dismissal of the entire field after only two years of undergraduate study is too likely to be a real dismissal of a mass of fact considered unworthy of full understanding in the face of the more specialized work awaiting the student. Two years can hardly give an undergraduate a mastery of his field sufficient to quality him for intensive study in a portion of it. What it will give is a birdseye view whose details fade rapidly into a shadowy background...
...National Women's Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
...tall, pale, ill-shaped scoundrel, with scrawny neck and spindly legs. His body was very hairy, and on that score, in his foppishness, he was very sensitive. Whoever mentioned a goat in his presence he butchered incontinently. His face was naturally ugly. Nonetheless he practiced grimaces before mirrors to achieve an awful, imperious scowl...