Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series on the progress of science in the last 100 years. The lecture is intended for the layman, so that a knowledge of Zoology will not be necessary in order to follow Dr. Macdonald's talk. It is expected that the lecturer will confine himself to the more familiar aspects of Biology. Professor Macdonald will probably explain at length Darwin's theory of the origin of species and the present conception of evolution that has grown from it. Another topic might be the Mendelian theory of the inheritance of characteristics, or Patseur's work on sterilization. A point...
...their interet in a subject, but because of the instructor's personality. Capable teachers are indispensable to interest in learning. Too often a summer school faculty consists of instructors who wish to make a little extra money or visiting professors from other universities who are not nearly as familiar with their subject as the regular men. Other summer schools make a decided effort to keep teachers with reputations during the summer; state colleges are enabled to do it because they can offer them substantial salaries. There is no possible inducement to remain in Cambridge during the summer unless there...
...Chicago, Elliott had another interview with the Press on the subject of Miss Googins. "I don't affirm or deny anything. My father is entirely familiar with all my future plans. The Roosevelt family is a closed corporation. When one decides to do something, all the others get behind him. I will be in Chicago until noon Saturday in any event," he concluded. ''At that time I will announce my plans for the next 24 hours...
...Monsignor William Eugene Cashin of Manhattan, one-time Chaplain of Sing Sing Prison, found himself "encumbered with a guide and interpreter. I may say that he wished himself on me. He spoke fair English, called me Father Cashin and generally acted as though he knew me. His face was familiar and in checking up I found he used to be one of my boys in Sing Sing, where he used to attend mass and go to confession. Alberto was his name. It seems that he was declared an undesirable alien when he got out of Sing Sing and was deported...
...horrendous penalties for any omissions or inaccuracies that directors and underwriters have trembled as they composed their prospectuses. Last week Massachusetts Investors Trust issued its prospectus for the shares it intends to sell and boldly took the bull by the horns. Businessmen noted that in place of the old familiar formula ("The information contained herein is not guaranteed but is compiled from sources which we believe to be reliable"), a wholly different formula had been substituted...