Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry and the profiteers. Instead of letting those departments now write the remedial legislation let us first have the full knowledge of the part they have played in creating the need for remedy. ... It is amazing to me that efforts would now be made to seem to check and halt the work of our committee...
This separation need not be. Science and the humanities are mutually essential. Without one the progress of civilization would halt; without the other that progress would be deprived of meaning. In the colleges, where both branches of knowledge are harbored, the cleavage should be minimized. Departmental boundaries should represent merely administrative divisions, not irreconcilable units. Yet professors of chemistry still confuse culture with laziness; humanists still regard slide-rules and test-tubes with contempt...
Inspired by the symphonic orchestration of some rare specimens of the Dunster-bird which appeared at the game attired in Curley-for-Governor banners, baby bonnets and false whiskers, the Dunster House football team rose up to halt the Lowell-men on their title march by tying them 0-0. The game was characterized by long gains on both sides, but both teams lacked a scoring punch...
...From a peak of $850,000,000 in 1929, contributions fell to $510,000,000 in 1932, to $410,000,000 in 1933. This year Counsellor Marts believes the South and West will show a 10% to 15% increase in giving. In the North and East the decline will halt. But mission boards and welfare agencies will experience the upturn more slowly than churches proper...
Threats of unknown forces within the University to put a halt to the address by Ann Burlak, planned for this afternoon, were carried out in part yesterday as practically all the posters placed by the National Student League, with official permission, upon bulletin boards about the University, were systematically torn down...