Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia is a very easy country to find out about," he said, "as the government authorities are anxious to have you see their experiment. The difficulty lies in the facts themselves, as you will discover so many contrasts in them. The reason is that Russia has a primitive culture; there is much ignorance, drunkenness and superstition. On the other hand the new regime, consisting of a small minority of the population, is trying to infuse life with the most modern problem of politics. It is discouraging when you see what an enormous task the people have set themselves, because they...
Turning the conversation to his experiences in Italy, Baldwin said that he had had a complete surprise when he had reached Mussolini's country. "I had expected to find Fascism generally supported or at least to find its opponents so cowed that I would be unable to discuss the situation with them. Instead, everyone was willing to talk. The people are very discontent with the present regime; this is because of the high price of living, the low wages and the growing unemployment...
...safe to assume that investigation would show that the number of students barred from their chosen institution in other states is smaller. Naturally there is nothing alarming about the situation. The small number of men and women refused admittance makes it probable that all the applicants could and did find second or third choices which proved satisfactory. There is certainly no cause for assuming that limitations on numbers is keeping properly qualified persons from the realms of higher learning. This, in the last analysis, would be the main objection to restriction. As it is, the efficiency of instruction...
...read. For the eventual outcome, the machinery of University Hall must be consulted, and the mailing cards as they come straggling in. Possibly the most salient fact which has been brought home to the undergraduate has been an old adage about procrastination; and the next reading period will find work begun earlier and done more regularly than in the one just past...
...seems, from what Dr. Ludwig himself feels, that in the near future, provided his production remains up to the mark, he will be hard put to it to find a subject for biographical portrait painting. For with the spread of democracy, says Dr. Ludwig, there will no longer be any first class geniuses. Genius will be, so to speak, a community chest from which the expenses of progress will be paid, taking the burden off the individual, and spreading it about upon the shoulders of humanity at large...