Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...methods used by both companies and unions in the mine wars of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; but one does not have to be an observer to feel that there is something wrong about this picture. An economic and social tragedy which has now lasted over a long period of years of general prosperity can hardly find its sole cause in capitalistic conspiracies or its sole remedy in attacks upon the injunctive proceeds. If after all these years of his militant leadership Mr. Lewis can still report 130,000 of his followers facing starvation, eviction and broken heads...
...final period in his life was devoted to consolidating the revolution. He was first entrusted with the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, being later succeeded there by Leon Trotsky. He then was appointed first Soviet Ambassador to Berlin, whence twelve years before he had been expelled. His activities in preparing the way for the German revolution, however, forced the Imperial Government to hand him his passports. He returned home to become Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
This was long after he had written the Origin of Species. Darwin was born in 1809. He went to Shrewsbury School, then Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally...
Protesting against the proposed cessation of tutorial conferences during the Reading Period, Professor Tatlock maintained that a more desirable method would be a cessation of tutorial work from the end of November to the beginning of the Reading Period, and resumption of tutorial conferences during the Reading Period...
While this proposal will not be put into effect in the English department this year, Professor Tatlock declared that the students would gain more from their reading if access to tutorial conferences was made possible. The cessation of tutorial work just prior to the reading period would afford both tutors and students a rest in preparation for the final study before mid-year examinations, as well as give the student additional time for study in the last section meetings of his course, Professor Tatlock believes...