Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characteristic of Dr. Conant to point out that the mere fact that a man's opinions may be considered unorthodox was no reason why he should be accorded unusually favorable treatment. "It academic decisions are to be influenced by the fear of their being misinterpreted as interference with academic freedom," he said, "then academic freedom itself to my mind, disappears...
More important, perhaps, than the outside appeal of this plan, is the fact that it emphasizes the value of furthering a pursuit of study beyond the mere bounds of degree requirements. Rather than assume an A. B. degree to be synonymous with complete education, the committee responsible for the plan intends to stimulate study after degree requirements are completed, as well as study in fields not connected with the student's life work...
...standard method of competition in foreign trade has been horse stealing-for exporters to steal as much of a foreign market as they could by underselling, for the victims to steal it back by imposing political quotas, tariffs and restrictions, fair or unfair. Dr. Murchison and friends in a mere ten days got the powerful Japan Cotton Spinner's Association to agree to steal no more of the U. S. market. The U. S. textile men promised to steal nothing back from the Japanese by political methods. Horse trading was substituted for horse stealing (TIME, March...
...Minister-President's ultimatum the Nazi press added its thunder: "The mere publication of this decree should galvanize the last slackers in the agrarian production battle...
...wide diversity of material which is lending itself to public discussion. As an illustration, the ten students tonight will speak on subjects ranging from "The Supreme Court Tribunal" to "Hector's Farewell to Andromache," and they will speak because they have something important to say, not for mere theatrical arm-waving. Each one chosen for better-than-average mastery of delivery, these ten, in their struggle for the prizes, are raising their voices in the cause for better speaking, furnishing impetus to a regenerated art. The trend towards original writing and simplified delivery at long last seems under way. Given...