Word: group
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiralty man in London inquired last week whether the U. S. expects Great Britain to let any nation or group of nations neutralize an area extending as far as 1,000 miles out on the high seas. The London Times said out loud: "Any action taken by an American Navy to enforce [the Declaration] would . . . amount to an act of war and nothing else...
...pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange of salvos. But even those had an unreal quality. "It is not a very furious war at present," remarked a French officer to a group of newspapermen visiting the front...
...light of this, the Administration's action can be interpreted in two different ways. First, it is possible that Mr. Conant does not propose to carry out the intentions of the Committee of Eight, but plans permanently to hold the "middle group" at a lower level. Needless to say, this would add up to an incalculable injury to Harvard's educational facilities...
...important courses and provide the most competent tutorial instruction. Under the old tenure plan, they might roughly have been classed as the assistant professors plus the associate professors. When the Committee of Eight proposed to abolish the rank of assistant professor, it was not proposing to reduce the middle group to that extent. Instead, it intended that this number be held constant, and that for every assistant professorship abolished, a new associate professorship should be created. The money to pay these new associates was, in effect, to come from savings arising out of a cut in the average salary...
...pieces Stahley has had his work cut out for him all week and still has no backfield selected for Saturday's game. But his greatest problem particularly aggravated by the continued changing of lineup has been to get a team that works together as a team, not just a group of individuals carrying out assignments...