Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan to make temporary appointments until faculty instructors are ready to take over the various vacated fields. Such a solution can only be frowned upon. Special lecturers, while they may cope with the teaching problem, can never be adequate tutors; they are simply not familiar enough with the lay of the land...
Lawrence, after vainly attempting to set up a cult of his own, established some sort of mystical communion with the cow, Susan, about whom he wrote what the lay mind cannot consider better than gibberish. Professor Tindall brings an uncompromising realism and common-sense to his subject, although he occasionally lapses into something like sympathy. Not that there can ever be true sympathy between a Mozartian on the one hand and a Wagnerite like Lawrence on the other! This is Professor Tindall's second study of a literary figure for whom he has no real liking (Bunyan was the first...
...great appeal and the great value of Marxism lay in its passion for social justice, and this Parkes excepts from autopsy. Marx was right, Parkes believes, in encouraging a militant trade unionism. Industrial democracy is essential. But the crucial error of Marxism, as Parkes sees it, was the theory that freedom could be attained only in a collectivized society. On this point the evidence is mountain-high. Says Henry Bamford Parkes: "Capitalist society is half free and half slave; instead of extending freedom to all, the Marxists propose to abolish the freedom...
Although two of the Red and Blue tallies came on passes and only one by running, the difference in the teams lay in the two lines. The 200 pound Quaker front wall was immovable on the defense, and consistently outcharged its smaller and Crimson-shirted opponents...
President Conant points out that clear thinking is not promoted by hysterical inhibitions against the thought of war. Behind the British navy we feel secure from material attack, but only when the Nazi gangsters are checked without profit, can we lay the menace of their poisonous ideology. Meanwhile the rising generation gives scant evidence of readiness to assume America's fair share in the defense of our civilization. Even those exposed to education incline to turn from the leadership appearing in the university world and take up the chant of the politicians: Be selfish. Be short sighted. Be cowardly...