Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spiral staircase over there. It's fine for allowing ladies to sweep down in a full skirt and a train, but it seems as if the staircase came first and the house as an after-thought." Someone asked her if she had occasion to sweep down with a train much, and she laughed and said not much. "Of course, this place is practical when you are entertaining the Prime Minister of India, but it's hard bringing up a family in it. Imagine eating breakfast on that enormous table. We tried to build a nook some place but couldn...
...Unlike the Poskanzer Report, of which this latest investigation is a logical extension, the committee will be dealing mainly in abstract ideas. It is possible to determine objectively, if not statistically, whether tutorial is more effective educationally than lectures; but it may prove to be impossible to determine how much tutorial contributes to the making of the "whole man". The possibility that the committee may not succeed has been recognized: it is not committed to making a report, but is just "considering...
...since there was much honest disagreement as to the merits of the elective and appointive systems, there was provision that after three years the Council should review itself and its constitution. The Council has now arranged to do this: it has in fact outdone itself in self-analysis by appointing two committees to cover the ground...
...some curious reason, the director started the story with the death of Bosinney and used a flashback to recount the central action of the picture. For those who had not read the book, this must have taken much of the punch out of the plot. If this wasn't enough to do so, then the astonishingly dull seript was. Some of the lines were so trite, that I felt the way an English A teacher must when his pupils read their early themes...
...Semmelweis was skeptical. His first clue to the real cause was statistics showing that mortality in the First Division ward was much higher than in the others. His second clue-the death of a fellow doctor-paid off. The doctor had cut his finger while dissecting a corpse; a post mortem convinced Semmelweis that his friend had died of childbed fever. "He saw himself dissecting ... He felt his fingers wet with the pus and the fluids of putrefaction. He saw those hands, partly wiped, entering the bodies of living women. The contagion passed from his fingers to the living tissues...