Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recent nightly "straight news" programs from British Broadcasting Corp. in German, designed to counteract the distorted news given by the Nazi officials to the German public, have had a welcome reception in many a German home. BBC has received a surprising number of unsigned letters from German listeners urging it to continue the broadcasts...
...Washington alone they number around 300, with salaries totaling close to $1,000,000 a year. Mimeographs whir endlessly with their press handouts, which are sorted and clipped together at electrical revolving tables, rushed by messenger to a battered table in the lobby of the National Press Club. There, any afternoon, correspondents hurrying in for a 5 o'clock whiskey & soda can run through an assortment like this...
...primary importance of a command of good written English in the student's whole training," Dean Leighton continued, "and its desire to strengthen the position of English A, which seeks to aid students at the outset in gaining such a command, the Faculty Council has decided to reduce the number of students exempted from this course. In the future the Committee for Elementary Modern language Instruction will be given authority to determine what students shall be exempt from English...
What might have been a very good Varsity triumvirate, is missing Jack Lewis, last year's ranking number one, through sickness; and the Jay Vees, with Wilson and Burrage ineligible, are only a fair aggregation...
...Avon the line-up will probably be: Hughes, number one, White, number two, and Higgins, number three...