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Bitter, of course, was the protest of pilots at this grading and economizing. About 50 flying men gathered at once on Long Island. Practical, they admitted to the Curtiss-Wright company: "The economic condition of Eastern pilots in winter prohibits our direct refusal of the terms you offer." Less immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pay Cut | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

I was interested in the editorial on History 2 which you printed, and in Professor Langer's reply. It is perhaps superfluous to reopen the subject, as I have nothing in particular to offer, but I do wish to express the fact that the course aroused in myself at times...

Author: By Charles E. Pettee ., | Title: The Melody Lingers On | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

The honor of being the first elected Fellow of the Canadian College went to Dr. Thomas Clarence Routley, 40. general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association. (Its president is Stephen Rice Jenkins, 71, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, a province with only 63 physicians for its 87,000 people.) Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Royal Canadian College | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

At shipping points all over the country, 100 inspectors for the U. S. Department of Agriculture were busily grading turkeys as raisers brought them in from the runs. Last year 200,000 birds were graded. This year 500,000 were expected to pass governmental scrutiny. Shrewd bird-buying housewives looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prime Birds | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Dean Holmes pointed out that the difficulties of marking presented no adequate reason for abolishing the system, as Professor Rogers suggested, but that they merely made more accurate grading necessary.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Holmes Refutes Rogers' Statement That Scholastic Grades are the Mark of the Dunce Cap as Exaggeration | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

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