Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete distribution of the new telephone directories will require about two more weeks. During that time the confusion will become steadily less, and the personnel of the telephonic company will be in a constant state of flux...
Manhood will not come until Il Duce feels able to withdraw his personal guidance from the manifold and multiplex organs of state he is creating. Today they are in virile flux. The goal is to create government by men responsible not primarily to geographical constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy...
...backfield, the same state of flux exists and nobody can tell whether Chet Litman or Freddy Moseley will get the call against the Tiger. As a matter of fact, judging from the Dartmouth game, the exact situations in the backfield mean very little, since Coach Casey may choose to run his plays from any of the four positions...
...these days of flux and change, when Harvard has a President who intends to make it an institution of higher learning, something greater, perhaps, than the pep-and-polish prevalent in the American college, the demands of the University on the preparatory school should be the subject of particular research. The repeated complaints against so many of the Freshman courses such as French 2, English 28, German A, find their basis as much in the failure of the preparatory schools to train their scholars for college work as in the poverty of inspiration in those seemingly necessary interludes...
...rises sporadically and wholeheartedly from small groups of individuals, but formal debating just does not seem to pack the punch that carries widespread interest among the present-day undergraduates. Oral expression even as every other feature of our social, political, and economic existence, is in a constant state of flux, and for the time being at least debating is staggering under...