Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essential to college life as the curriculum. It is usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though he may detest it in fact. For a degree lecturing is easier than tutorial, yet for an ideal some individual consideration is superior to none. Thus the C man wants a compromise between the two; he does...
...least afraid of incurring libel suits, for he claims to have consulted legal authorities on the matter. "Also, the school committee probably realizes that you should never sue a person for libel, for he's 'libel' to prove he's correct," punned Kerins...
Last week came I. P. U. election day. Fleshy, easygoing Senator Barkley of Kentucky prepared to settle the little matter in the privacy of his Library Committee Room. To his surprise, crowds of Congressmen flocked in. He hastily moved the meeting to a larger room, and then discovered what was happening: Republicans in Congress (193 this year compared to 106 last year) had decided to make it a social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish...
Tracing Arab nationalism back to 1847, and attributing its early beginnings largely to the influence of U. S. missionaries in Syria, who brought printing presses and organized Arab clubs, Author Antonius insists that Arab nationalism has now become essentially a matter of self-preservation. Admitting that nothing but harm can come out of the terror now raging in Palestine, he insists that physical violence by the Arab is the "inevitable corollary of the moral violence" done the Arab, that Arab terrorism in Palestine does not need German or Italian propaganda to foster...
...This occurrence is certainly unique in several respects, as we believe it to be the first authentic case of a meteorite ever striking an automobile, or for that matter a vehicle of any kind; and the first where its end course could be accurately measured from three established points penetrated in its fall. We also believe Mrs. Crum came nearest to being actually hit by a meteorite of any person on record in this country...