Word: loomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questions seem to require serious attention and a full answer. If the 'House Libraries are inadequate, why must that discovery be made only after the reading period has begun? Why cannot the House and Widener Librarians confer, with reading lists before them, and come to some informed decision? These loom prominent in the undergraduate view of the problem. They will not be answered by unexplained denials and references to higher authority...
...some 400 clergymen and laymen representing 26 denominations gather in Indianapolis for the Sixth Quadrennial Meeting of the Federal Council. Ready for the delegates' perusal are voluminous reports by many a committee, on such innocuous matters as goodwill, race relations, broadcasting, finance, education, etc. etc. But large questions loom. Has the Federal Council been too liberal in its talk, as in the guarded Birth Control pronouncement which caused the Southern Presbyterians to withdraw, the Northern Presbyterians, Northern Baptists and United Lutherans to threaten withdrawal (TIME, June 15, 1931 et seq.)? Should the Protestant Mouthpiece be muffled, be supervised more...
...John Hearst, was notified of the decision. Straightway flashed a cable from President Paley to his First Vice President Edward Klauber in Manhattan. Said President Paley in effect: "Big political news will be breaking before November. Election campaigns will approach fever heat in September and October. National issues will loom large in the public eye. Let CBS augment its facilities for reporting that news by presenting 'The March of Time' two months earlier as a sustaining feature entirely at its own expense...
...blind habit of blaming Congress for all the ills of the land. If & when Congress gets out of the way, the Lausanne Conference on Reparations in June will probably be pointed out as the next stumbling block to U. S. recovery. After that the November election will begin to loom as a "menace" on the financial...
...they are at present constituted, divisionals loom as a major operation, which one approaches with a sort of desperation. The detailed part of these examinations ought to be given in the third year, and the Senior exams should be single (choice of several) essay questions on broad subjects of one's field. At any rate, they should not all be dropped like a guillotine at the end of the last year, to behead the student who has not developed a neck stiff enough to withstand such assaults. What the Senior examinations should alone determine is a man's fitness...