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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the departments that have accepted a larger number of honors students this year are: Chemistry with 65 per cent out for honors, German 52 per cent, Government 45 per cent, History 43 per cent, Literature 74 per cent, Mathematics 76 per cent, Sociology 46 per cent, and Semitic Languages 100 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS MEN RETAIN STEADY PERCENTAGE | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

...Never shoot into flocks larger than seven or eight-you can't kill them all and you will only frighten away the others for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...total budgetary limit. This would ensure that every department had enough "middle men" to efficiently staff its courses. It would also mean, of course, that some of the associate professors could never be advanced, but this presents no formidable problem if it is realized that associate professors here have larger salaries and greater academic prestige than full professors in most other colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENURE ISSUES CLEARING | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...short bow to free trade and the sanctity of the borders of minor nations. It was as though, after six years, he realized he had about exhausted Mein Kampf not only as a platform but as a point of appeal, and had been compelled to appeal to some larger interest, i.e., the interest of all the European masses, for whom he now specifically set himself up as the provider of "peace," "security," and "real economic prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Last Hour. While the larger issue of Soviet armed intervention or peaceful mediation in World War II remained a question, Moscow proceeded swiftly snapping what a Swedish commentator called "Stalin shackles" on the defenseless Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Shackles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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