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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exchequer, eloquent William Ewart Gladstone made budget speeches famous. Winston Churchill used to gesture a lot. Neville Chamberlain (now Prime Minister) usually had the amiable duty of announcing surpluses. To Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer for nearly two years, has come the unenviable task of "opening" the largest peacetime budgets in Britain's history. Last week, before a crowded House of Commons, he again appeared with the little worn red-leather dispatch box carried by Gladstone, opened it and ceremoniously drew out his sheafs of paper and, in an uninspired, low, monotonous tone of voice, proceeded coldly...
...their application of faith to their personal lives. Most of the world's 12,000,000 Methodists live in the U. S. Last week was a big week for them. By reuniting three branches of Methodism, separated for nearly a century, U. S. Methodists set up the largest Protestant church in the nation. Name: the Methodist Church. Membership: nearly...
...engine has 24 cylinders ar ranged in four banks like a double-V. Supercharged and built for streamlining into wings and fuselages, it develops 2,400 h.p., weighs less than a pound per horse power.† Its constant-speed propeller, largest ever built in the U. S., is geared to revolve at lower speed than the engine (because propellers lose efficiency at high speeds). Probable use of the new powerplant: to propel bombers faster than bombers have ever been driven before...
Below are listed Freshman courses with the largest enrollment and percentage of tutoring. Percentages of lectures attended and reading done are attributed only to those who received aid of some kind from the schools. Average attendance of Freshmen at all tutored courses 89 % Average reading done by Freshmen in all tutored courses 76 % Percentage of tutoring done for History I 31.2 % Percentage of those tutoring who use only prepared notes 54 % Percentage of those tutoring who use only oral reviews 31 % Percentage of those tutoring who use both reviews and notes 15 % % tutored by C.T.B. & U.T. 38% % tutored by Fairfax...
History I was singled out from the list of courses in which Freshmen tutor as the largest course in college with over 400 Yardlings enrolled. It also provoked the greatest number of objections on the grounds that "the handling or subject matter of the course was abnormally difficult and thus induced tutoring...