Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial burden which the tutorial system causes has been one of the chief impediments to its spread. Harvard's large-scale revision of its educational system to make way for the tutor could hardly be widely imitated by other colleges. Nor should it be, for in such cases a gradual evolution is better than a forced transition. For many colleges, existent fraternity groups provide a special opportunity for gradual experiment and adaption...
Captain Nakamura. A more obvious cause is the age-old feud between China and Japan which roots in the dislike of any peace-loving, impoverished people for pushing, successful, militaristic neighbors. This feud has been fanned by China's realization of her gradual loss of Manchuria. There is a Japan Boycott Society with branches throughout China. For over a year there have been anti-Japanese riots throughout Manchuria. Last month a Captain Shintaro Nakamura of the Japanese Army left Mukden to make survey maps in the Manchurian interior. He was provided with papers giving him full permission signed...
...noted that a gradual increase in salaries had taken place from 1920 to 1925, whether the man in question was one or ten years out of the school. This rise was in the neighborhood of ten per cent. Finance heads the list as the most consistent produces of high salaries, especially for men from three to nine years engaged in that occupation. Teaching holds the lead as the high-paying profession for graduates up to two years out of the school, and passes finance in total salary when ten-year graduates are considered. Accounting, manufacturing, and marketing are grouped together...
...country's confidence in Andrew W. Mellon. . . . There will be a great demand for increased surtaxes for that always is a popular thing." Speaker Longworth reflected his party's great yearning for good times when he said: "I am hoping that reports of a gradual return of prosperity will be followed by a big upturn before the end of the year and that this will greatly increase the Government's revenues...
...calm political atmosphere of the moment" lasted about that long. Delegates representing the U. S., Hungary, Jugoslavia and other wheat-growing countries were in favor of a gradual limit on wheat-growing, some agreement modeled after the Chadbourne sugar plan (TIME, Feb. 2). This suggestion was immediately opposed by the big wheat importers- Great Britain and Italy-who have everything to gain from a continuation of the low price of wheat. A second suggestion, to grant preferential tariffs in Europe to wheat grown in the Danube basin (possibly an echo of Foreign Minister Briand's "United States of Europe...