Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order, therefore, to prevent postponement of work, it would perhaps be well for instructors to give important hour examinations directly before the reading periods, and perhaps a number of tests throughout their courses. Thus the student would be compelled to do the work which parallels the lectures and at the same time would be saved in the reading period from a burden of work which he could not possibly cover...
...York State will be required to have had at least one year of college education. The following year the requirement is to be doubled, and a certificate of satisfactory grades in college for at least two years will be demanded. There is a provision in the order of the New York Court of Appeals to the effect that a satisfactory showing on special examinations will be accepted in place of the college requirement, but inasmuch as these special examinations are intended to be the requirements for second-year men, the provision for them widens, without weakening, the application...
...Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms of Basso Chaliapin were beating out an aerial quick-step at the orchestra in the middle of a duet. Before the nervous and fascinated audience, Conductor Alwin brought the orchestra to order with a sweep of his baton, held it to his chosen tempo for the rest of the opera. Sequel: A riled audience reserved applause for minor singers. An indignant press flayed the impertinence of the rebellious foreigner, Feodor Chaliapin. An exhausted conductor said that for Basso Chaliapin, he would conduct...
...Bruce Barton's critics can never have read a word he wrote. If they had, they would know that-victim of cliches though he is, Utopian and ambrosial though his visions become and offensive though it seems of him to announce his views as "heresy of the first order"?he is not an unctuous man. He is a clear-headed businessman and pretends to be nothing else; nothing mystical, nothing superior to others...
...gavel in his great fist last week. He thwacked the speaker's table smartly and the 14th yearly convention of the National Foreign Trade Council went into three-day convention at Detroit. Mr. Farrell organized the Council in 1914 and has always been its chairman. When he rapped for order, he got it. Nor did many of the 2,000 manufacturers, merchants, shippers, railroaders, steamship men, importers and exporters who went to Detroit last week stray across the river to Windsor, Ontario, seeking a glass of good beer...