Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negotiations now under way with Germany include the following: German Main Bank for Mortgage Protection, $25,000,000: United Westphalian Electric Works, $15,000,000; Girocentrale...
...examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump at the eleventh hour...
...Main Tendencies in French Thought from 1870 to 1900," Professor Morize. Sever...
...Schmalhausen embarks upon his preface with the following portentous sentence: "The main thesis of this volume is simple and lucid, to wit: that critical-mindedness spells enlightenment while credulity spells superstition; that America, speaking educationally is persuaded that critical-mindedness is a crime against bad manners; that the capacity for self-delusion is the over shadowing defect of the human mind, nowhere more in evidence than in optimism-haunted America; that the pursuit of knowledge somehow manages to ignore the pursuit of wisdom; that facts are mistaken for comprehension and information mistaken for insight; that, in short, our education stresses...
...Main Tendencies in French Thought from 1870 to 1900," Professor Morize, Sever...