Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hatchet of the 1,000-year-old Franco-German enmity had been officially buried, and the realistic French public, which remembered how Adolf Hitler had emasculated the Locarno Pact, the League of Nations Covenant and the Kellogg-Briand Pact of Paris, was skeptical about the new pact's length of service. Even some members of the Daladier Cabinet looked with suspicion on the new "friendship." Noteworthy it was that the guest list to the French Government's banquet for the visiting Nazi diplomats did not include the names of Jean Zay, Minister of National Education, and Georges Mandel...
...reported that he soon had reason to believe that the crew were violating the law. He said they brought in humpback whales shorter than 35 feet and whales which were nursing their young. Although the crew had insisted at the outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead whales bore harpoon marks, the whalers had no comeback...
...Length of Curricula Reduced...
...most desirable changes, Dean Hudnut's office announces, is the reduction of the length of the combined curricula of college plus profess- ional school from 71/2 to 61/2 years. The decrease of the time required for the training of an architect is making it possible to test the qualifications of students for professional studies while they are still in college...
...immediate advantages the student may gain from this new field are manifold. Not only will concentration in the Department reduce the length of the entire course by a full year, but two new surveys, each of which will last two years, will help integrate the material to be covered. From his undergraduate studies, the student will also be able to judge his aptitude for the work...