Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintain her present staff, Yale must create more associate professorships and recognize contributions of teaching as well as of scholarship. Further, the whole teaching force should have a voice in faculty affairs. Those at present excluded must be given hearing by the powers that be. As for methods of instruction, a continuation of the plan to make groups smaller and an extension of the "honors" courses when money and available men are at hand--these are the most desirable changes to be made for the betterment of Yale...
...independence were granted, now or in the future, Filipinos, as most of them admit, could not maintain it against foreign aggression...
...Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald commented upon the extraordinary fact that there was not a Scot in the present Cabinet. But he consoled himself and his audience by stating that Premier Stanley Baldwin was half a Scot,* adding, however: "I doubt whether half a Scotsman is good enough to maintain the great burdens of governing this country." (Applause.) All the jokes at the expense of Scotsmen, he alleged, were invented by Scotsmen. "I once employed a parliamentary secretary," he related, "not for the purpose of giving me good advice in politics-because I get enough of that and to spare without...
...Christ. To the layman, Unitarianism means both these denials-and one thing more: a spirit, urbane, tolerant, intellectual lofty but not dynamic, illustrious but not victorious. Today, Unitarians regard themselves as having a special significance. They see about them "liberals" among Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, hard pressed to maintain their freedom of thought and action against "fundamentalists." They think liberals should become Unitarians and even charge them with intellectual dishonesty for not so doing. Their current literature and speeches express the wonder that men whose minds are open to Science can remain in the old creedal denominations. Celebration...
...joint subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation and the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey) at whose plant at Bayway, N.J., workers manufacturing tetraethyl lead went mad with lead poisoning last fall and died in straight jackets (TIME, Nov. 10). For the prosecution there will be scientists who maintain that a U. S. Bureau of Mines report, issued at Pittsburgh in November and accepted by health authorities as a clean bill of health for leaded gasoline, was inconclusive and premature...