Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viceroy Linlithgow may fulfill these duties either by creating a genuinely self-ruling British India or by perpetuating British rule by force. In the latter case, the new Constitution provides such increased outlets for Indian discontent as provincial cabinets and provincial legislatures elected by 14% of the native adult population. Viceroy Linlithgow retains such absolute powers as the right to overrule single-handed his own executive council and to veto laws passed by the Indian Legislature if he chooses to think they "affect the safety or tranquillity of British India...
...policy based upon a misguided conception of the relative worth of teaching and scholarship. The department of Physics is supposed to teach Physics; at the same time, it appears, its function is to engage in exhaustive research work. At the moment, all its energies are directed toward the latter end. In theory, men are engaged for their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger here much more than a year. Promotions come not as a reward...
...latter is played rather poorly by Dudley Digges, who is the enemy of the whole county because his fences hinder the hounds. Spring Byington as Barrymore's wife and Charley Grapewin as a crony give their usual performances. The whole picture drags considerably, but is more than endurable...
...interested in Physical Anthropology has a far wider training in fields allied to this subject and is relieved of the necessity of mastering a mass of facts and theories on the social and religious life of aboriginal groups in all parts of the world. If a candidate wishes the latter information, he selects General Ethnography or Ethnology and Social Anthropology, in which he widens his approach by selecting specified courses in history, sociology and psychology...
Coach Cowles' veteran aggregation should not experience difficulty with Amherst in spite of C. L. Winston, the crack number 1 man of the visitors. The latter, however, may prove too powerful for Jim Thackera, who also has a hard match coming with Paul Guibord of Dartmouth. The Big Green will invade the Crimson's courts on Saturday...