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...committee, which advocated a change in Physics C toward making it more thorough and more advanced. More advanced should mean, however, that the course ought to go more deeply into fundamentals, rather than "passing rapidly over them," as stated in the report. A further change that would lighten the burdens of the department would be to open Physics B to men who had had physics in school, but were inadequately prepared for more advanced courses...
Although the meeting was closed to the press, it was impossible to hide the evidence of immense quantities of beer brewed in the Merriman cellar which was used to lighten the cares of the Head Master's charges...
...Hopkins definition of unemployables is "all chronic dependents," including the aged, the sick, the crippled, the insane, widows. They constitute about 20%, of the 19,000,000 persons now on relief. But last week's move will not lighten the Federal burden by 20%. because many a state and city is already caring for its unemployables...
...went to work too, but then Hanna found she was going to have another baby. Other unremarkable misfortunes followed: Peter got blood-poisoning, their furniture was attached for taxes, a general strike made even honest workmen scabs. Their story ends in the midst of the strike, with nothing to lighten the horizon but a possible emigration...
...private insane asylum where Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten the continued examinations of subjects gross and primitive that are usually neglected in print. In many places M. Destouches has seized upon psychological phases of post-war French attitudes with great skill, capitalizing the fact that he is working with new material, but to the English reading public the conviction and justification...