Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offended person simply strolled off the stage announcing that he was going out to have a little tennis What Mr. Nathan says is not strictly true; yet high comedy in both England and America certainly does not fulfill its possibilities. Superficially it is good, but at the crucial moment it bogs down and turns from drama into sentimentality...
...significance of the Minnesota decision--and it is probably the forerunner of many of similar import--is that in an emergency much will be-tolerated but that the moment efforts are made to impose on the country a permanent system, the Supreme Court will probably point to the amending power of the constitution itself as the best remedy available to the people or their leaders who may feel that a new social or economic order shall be set up in America...
...host of vital questions are opened up the moment an "emergency" is justification for the law of a state permitting contracts to be abrogated. As a matter of fact, it would seem probable that the Supreme Court of the United States will uphold the action of the executive branch of the government and the legislative in repudiating the famous gold clause in government securities. The highest court in Great Britain recently refused to permit an "emergency" to be offered as a reason for falling to pay gold contracts in full
...administration wants to accelerate the stabilization process and peg the dollar at the earliest possible moment. Just as soon as Congress gives the necessary authority to the President to confiscate the gold profit, then a devaluation policy may some day be suddenly announced. It probably will come within the next three months
...instruction respect the intelligences of the students quite as highly as they respect the intelligences of the teachers. These methods consist concretely in constructing typical situations in which the minds of students are put to it to find solutions. And when the student fails, then is the psychological moment for the teacher -- he suggests ways out of the difficulty. The hope is that the student will leap at suggestions because his mind has already fumbled for them, feels a definite need for them, and so sees their significance. This is the new conception of the teacher's task; and this...