Word: folds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queried one: "Why did not the Socialists announce this intention sooner, since they have always favored the Pacts? Did Chancellor Luther entice them by some means into his fold...
Said M. Stelmachovics: "The rapid economic recovery of Russia during the past twelve months has been attended by an enormous increase in the number of cases of embezzlement and graft reported by the police. . . . At Moscow such crimes have increased eleven fold in twelve months, and in the provinces the figure is nearly 20 fold. . . . This situation has been brought about by slipshod administrative and financial control, and by lack of care in the selection of employes. . . . 41% of the culprits had been employed less than six months . . . [and] 58% of them were addicted to drink or debauched living. . . . Bookkeeping...
...work of the committee will be of a two-fold nature," Aswell explained last night. "In the first place, we shall study as thoroughly as possible such problems as examinations and tutorial methods, with a view to making constructive suggestions for improving the methods used. In the second place, the committee will act as a clearing house through which criticisms and suggestions on educational matters will be welcomed for consideration...
...years the fallacy has persisted that those who enter the profession of teaching must renounce all hopes of a respectable income and serve for the joy of serving. In the Forum for October Mr. Frank Bohn iconoclastically scouts the logic of this attitude. If professors, by leaving the academic fold, he argues, can compete successfully in business and command salaries many times greater than those they received for teaching, there must indeed be something radically wrong in college administration. The blame for this situation the writer lays on the heads of the university presidents and boards of trustees...
Outside Looking In-The first good play of the season was inscribed with the signature of Maxwell Anderson. Mr. Anderson had a play two seasons back which he called White Desert (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923) and which he watched fold up after a brief two weeks with some regret; it was a good play. Then he wrote What Price Glory (TIME, Sept. 15, 1924) with Laurence Stallings, and found himself rapidly rich and at once a notable. Outside Looking In is the first play from either, or both, of their pens subsequently...