Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time that Canwell was conducting the investigation at the University, public reaction against his methods began to form. Educators and even other legislators complained of the inability of the accused to defend themselves. J. Alfred Schweppe, former dean of the University law school and a past president of the Washington bar, complained that the Canwell Committee itself was "un-American." One of the professors accused of being a Communist, Herbert Phillips, was prevented from replying to the "are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" question with anything but a yes or no answer...
...gross profits before any of the surplus had been plowed back into improvements for the transit system; thus, the stock was for private investors highly profitable and secure. Inasmuch as a politically appointed board of trustees ran the company, these stocks became during the Curley regime a form of party patronge. So the State elimination of these dividends cut out a large portion of the system's yearly operating expenses...
...interview yesterday. Dr. Hertz stressed the production of this new form of treatment as an example of the need for close interaction between technological science and the medical profession for full utilization of these fields. He warned that in a sense, this discovery might tend toward a complacent attitude in regard to pushing forward toward the development of even more fundamental forms of treatment of Grave's disease. However, he emphasized this example in therapeutic application as a beacon in utilizing the tracer methods employing radioactive substances for the analysis of cellular function, growth, metabolism and nutrition in the body...
...this first novel Sartre has attempted to present his philosophy in the form of literature tracing the mental states of a young man during his daily life and showing the slow evolution of all facets of Existentialism in his mind. This develop for expressing himself falls however because of the philosophy involved and on the author's unsuitable prose the style. The philosophy falls along along the way, and the plot helds little interest but the book proves to be worthwhile due to the depth of the author's psychological insight. His perception of the main character's mind...
...deplores the tendency in England and the U.S.--not at Harvard, he remarks diplomatically--of university professors to doubt the worth of their academic pursuits. "Outside always suspects Ivory Tower, but insiders now think asking questions too persistently is form of maladjustment. Research, secret joy, but go to Washington to justify it. Whole concept of university breaks down. Used to think disciplines just different ways of asking same question. Now want answers, not truth...