Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation-wide poll on the prohibition question is being conducted among the various colleges and universities of the United States by the National Student Federation of America, the results of which are expected to furnish one of the main topics of discussion at the Federation Conference to be held next December at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Although no political results of the discussion are contemplated, it is felt that the investigation will be of value in summarizing and crystalizing undergraduate opinion...
...general science and will come at the same time as Biology 1 has been in the past. It is designed to meet the needs particularly of the man who does not desire to take any further courses in biological sciences or to study medicine. Biology A will put the main emphasis on the lectures, its laboratory work being about one half that required in the other new courses, Zoology 1 and Botany...
...Name General Leonard Wood's main backer in 1920. (See THE CABINET...
Continued study of the stock mar- ket heavings of recent weeks confirms the diagnosis that they marked in the main a subsidence of speculative investments. These latter were certainly supported by the ease and plenitude of money which has prevailed for so long a period. Last week the stock waves approached a level. Business throughout the country during the week was fairly stable. To intimate that prices may decline slightly during the coming months may seem uncouth and previous. The vivifying strength of spring trade has not yet made itself felt appreciably. Motor car and steel makers are under quantity...
...upon the reader. The author is so stuffed-to-the-ears with quotable information on his vast array of thobbers that the moderately learned will make heavy weather of his pages if they try to read all. But trust the author of Evolution for John Doe to make his main point clear and entertaining. Leave it to the erudite to plough through the whole book and decide how much is penetrating, how much inane...