Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curriculum proposed is to be practical rather than theoretical. Especially significant is its inclusion of a course in the actualities of politics. "Such a course," says the commission, "should not follow the usual lines of academic instruction by discussing such topics as public opinion, electoral procedure and formal party organization, but should endeavor to acquaint the student with the actual political situations which he is likely to encounter during his later career. It should aim to give him a clear insight into the workings of the politician's mind as well as an acquaintance with the politician's technique...
...Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when 3,000 visitors crammed the White House. The last act belonged to the author of the 20th Amendment which set forward this inauguration and those that will follow from March 4 to Jan. 20. Said Senator George William Norris of Nebraska: "They are all trying to blame this on me. You can't charge this up to me until after March 4 when you see what kind of a day that...
Eight years earlier but more advanced in technique was "The Great Train Robbery," genesis of all wild westerns. For the first time the possibilities of the camera are exploited and it is allowed to move about and follow the characters' actions. This was one of those first films where some audiences were known to get up and run from in front when a train was seen approaching...
...anticipated by Harvard authorities that the curriculum of the institution will follow the suggestions made by the special commission and emphasize the actualities of politics rather than the theories of political science. The courses will probably deal with economic analysis, and the business phases of governmental policy...
...that he was in constant communication with his late father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Said he: "My father has never failed to advise me on my personal and business relations. Not once since he died six years ago has he advised me wrong. The only time I did not follow his instructions I was nearly killed...