Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American educational system took form in the forties of the last century and stopped progressing between 1914 and 1918. The present Russian plan of education dates from 1920 and the last five years has been a period of steady advance. We are now in the old world, the new world has again advanced westward", declared Mr. Scott Nearing in speaking to the members of the Liberal Club yesterday on education in the Soviet government...
...first session after taking a pass from Whiting. The disc failed to clear the ice but slipped through the guard of Thompson, Newton cage guardian. Holbrook, the brilliant leader of the schoolboys, who was forced out of the game for a few minutes in the initial period with a cut on the hand, contributed several long dashes and narrowly missed two hard drives at the Crimson cage...
...alternate Sundays. They were required to be in the dining hall seven hours and 20 minutes a day, of which time one half hour before each meal was allowed for eating, making a total of five hours and 50 minutes of actual work. Thus in a bi-weekly period the waiters were to work 40 hours and 50 minutes, for which they would receive 21 meals and $8.00 in cash (or meals), that is the equivalent of two weeks' meals less $1.50, or $.43 an hour. These men were to work under a professional headwaiter and a steward...
...They are not allowed the entire half hour for eating their own meals as was agreed upon originally, for they are required to give half of this period to setting up the tables. This setting up of tables could be done in five minutes if there were a proper system...
...expect to hear Professor Tatlock instead. He is speaking in Sever 30 on "Social Conditions of the Restoration Drama." It was Mr. Basil Dean who was recently interviewed to the effect that the drama of today, because of comparable social conditions bears certain startling resemblances to that of the period which Professor Tatlock is discussing...