Word: governments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this book the Yale Department of Personal Study has embodied the results of its researches into the psychological and environmental factors which govern the attitude of the average undergraduate to study. The conclusions reached at the end of consideration of detailed data stress, among other things, the importance of purposefulness in the academic course of every student, and the harm done by the imposition of too many courses which are not of the student's own choosing...
...Jackson Barnett, full-blooded Creek, worked his 160-acre allotment by day, rested his tired bones in a not-too-clean four-room shack by night. He was old#&151;60, maybe 70-he didn't know exactly. He was poor. He was illiterate. But he was a Govern-ment ward and he had learned that, so long as he stayed a good Indian, the Govern-ment would provide...
...think that France will be compelled to abandon her form of govern-ment even temporarily. There are minorities who clamor for it, but they are small minorities...
...marked the first time since the War that a duly accredited representative of Rumania has appeared in Moscow. For eleven years Rumania and Russia have been at odds, in fact ever since Rumania possessed herself in 1918 of the rich Russian province of Bessarabia (pop. 2,600.000). Thereafter the govern-ment at Bucharest refused to recognize the Bolshevist regime; and, for eleven years, Soviet school children have been studying maps on which Bessarabia appears as part of Russia labeled: "Under temporary Rumanian military occupation...
...Presidential table-chat was the story appearing in Collier's for Jan. 26. This told of an unnamed surgeon whose possessions were taken by the U. S. in 1917 when the govern-ment conducted a general seizure of German property. For ten years the surgeon has awaited the return of one piece of property. He prizes it highly. It is the appendix of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Bottled, of course...