Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year pinnacle last season; it was a Harvard team that Dick Harlow coached which humillated these same Cavallers by a smothering score of 65-0 in the Stadium last fall. The excuse of the Southerners after this football defeat was that all football was down in Charlottesville was a method of keeping the boxers in trim. Boxing is a major sport, the major sport, at Virginia; and 6000 people are expected to troop in Saturday night to read in their elaborate programs the biographies of the Harvard boxers, hoping they are about to witness southern honor gaining a sweet revenge...
Harold W. Dodds, President of Princeton, declared: "In this era of such rapid extension of the functions of the state throughout the civilized world, of times with little pause to consider all the circumstances, conferences organized along the principles of this one are of unique value. The method by which controversial matters are approached and disposed of is a lesson to those who despair of democracy...
...under control, the patient is deprived of his habitual drug supply. Dr. Kolb seldom uses "reduction treatment," i. e., diminishing doses of the drug to which the patient has been addicted. When Dr. Kolb tapers off a patient, he does so rapidly. "Cold turkey" produces better results. By this method, the patient is suddenly and completely deprived of drugs. He becomes irritable and restless. He cannot sleep. He sneezes and sweats, suffers diarrhea. He may collapse. Most of these "abstinence phenomena" disappear in three days. As. they wane, the patient gets sedative drugs (other than opiates), soothing baths and electric...
...chief interest in this otherwise stereotype film lies in its explanation of the Orloff (Stavisky) method of financing. Starting from humble beginnings, Stefan Orloff (Claude Rains) engineers first a jewelry racket, and then, when things get too hot for him and his associates, he turns to crooked management of government subsidized pawn shops. Desiring an entire into society to further his ends, he elevates Niki (Kay Francis) from an obscure mannequin to the foremost couturiere in Paris. Using her as a front, he stage lavish balls and manages to get the names of many of the important governmntal officials linked...
Charles G. Haines, visiting professor of Government, returned to the simpler method of refusing to comment, saying simply, "No, nothing to say." Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, also refused to say anything for publication. Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, elaborated a bit more, saying he felt "something of the sort would have to be done if we were to have an efficient democracy. I think it's rather ingenious, but Im not appalled...