Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, because no other has the foundation that has been laid at Harvard by the tutorial system. There are, however, many other plans of similar intent now in operation in various places. Meiklejohn has at Wisconsin a college where there is no classroom teaching, and the emphasis is on joint research. Rollins College has set its students free from all formal routine for an experimental term of six months. Honor students at Swarthmore and elsewhere take no "courses" at all in their last two years, but spend their time getting ready for the final comprehensive examinations...
...Passed the delayed joint resolution giving a special gold medal to Colonel Lindbergh; after stormy argument, ordered a similar medal struck for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth; passed a bill awarding the Distinguished Flying Cross to the crew of the Bremen, to Commander de Pinedo of Italy and Lieutenant Costes and Lieut.-Commander Lebrix of France...
...course there are lots of plain fellows like me who've got the idea that Harvard is a dignified and aristocratic sort of joint and that Harvard men are different from the rest of the world...
...fHer husband last week gave $1,000,000 to the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation for the establishing of Jewish farm colonies in Russia...
Each one of these substances, when injected into the animal body has a specific effect. One of them, the phosphatide fraction, makes cells grow wildly and rapidly, giving the effect of cancer. Over 20 laboratories and organizations are cooperating in the research under the joint guidance of the Public Health Service and the National Tuberculosis Association: the results justify hope of a more rapid solution of this baffling disease. Dr. White feels that the same scientific concentration method should be applied to fields of study in industry, agriculture, medicine...