Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution of the tutoring problem may life in the offering of a general review by every instructor in a course at the end of each term. These reviews should be highly beneficial in coordinating the work of the period just completed and would go far towards remov- ing the pre-examination panic and rush to tutoring schools. Reviews are so important in the understanding of any course as a whole that they should be offered by the instructors themselves
...Steel. Far from gay, however, was the tory of U. S. Steel Corp. Big Steel has run at lower percent of capacity than the independents, has faced bitter price competition in the profitable (to others) Detroit steel market, has had much of its capacity in Pittsburgh and Chicago idle because of stagnant demand for capital goods. Last quarter it made only 18? a share on its preferred stock, grimly paid holders the $1.75 coming to them: the difference, $5,644,368 (nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated...
...Zurich succeeded in making an artificial pupil for the left eye, set in below the position of the normal pupil. The cataract on Joyce's right eye has meanwhile developed. He has had eleven major operations on his eyes, all without anesthetics, faces another soon. But he sees far better than he did ten years...
...gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has really added a cubit to her stature, she will never be quite the same again...
...mediocre charcoals and lithographs, together with an unusually fine etching compose the exhibit of Kathe Kollwitz's work now being shown in the Leverett House Common Room. The quality of the pieces in the collection is of secondary importance, however. What is far more pertinent is the fact that for the second time this year certain members of Leverett House have had enough practical initiative and aesthetic sensibility to remove the capital "A" from the word "art." An average painting hanging on the wall of a House Common Room is of much more value than a most highly prized Rembrandt...