Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote could be taken of all the Americans who have sojourned in the Philippine Islands for two years or more during the period of American occupation, I venture the assertion that 90% would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only...
Next day, after Cabinet meeting, the President was more versed in coal complexities. The industry, it seemed to him, was undergoing a period of adjustment. Supply had outrun demand. Small operators, or operators with large overhead, were pinched by competition and could buy coal more cheaply than mine it. These, apparently, were reasons why the operators had abrogated the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement of 1924. Secretary of Labor Davis had asserted in October, at the A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles, that the coal industry is overmanned by 300,000 men (TIME...
Missouri ploughed peevishly through Oklahoma, after the latter had scored unexpectedly in the opening period. Missouri won the game 20-7 and with it the Missouri Valley Conference championship...
This is the first year that the division of Biology has been a field of concentration with tutorial examinations. As the idea of a Reading Period was not formally dealt with by the division until the middle of October, professors in this division had not previously arranged their lectures with the Reading Period in mind. Until Tuesday December 12, when the divisional meeting takes place, there will be no definite divisional program issued as regards the Reading Period in each of the three departments of the Division of Biology...
...both these departments the laboratory work during the Reading Period will under no circumstances be suspended or even curtailed in any way, because these departments feel that it would be a definite disadvantage to the students to diminish the amount of laboratory work in any of the prescribed courses...