Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most histories of education start with the Greek and Roman period and neglect the older systems, a study of which often proves invaluable, Hartshorne declared yesterday. "Max Weber, well-known sociologist and economist, is the only man I know who has written an authoritative comparative work on the subject...
...What is in question is solely the appointment of a larger number of associate professors to compete as equals, over a period of years, for a lesser number of full professorships. Under such a policy, no one would be tagged as destined from the outset to be given a full professorship, and none need be tagged as destined to be denied it. Under such a policy, disappointments when they come would be gradual, and would be founded at least on permanence rather than prediction. We cannot believe that the avoidance of such disappointments ought to be the lodestar...
Last year, partially as a result of the halving of the borrowing period, the library had a twenty per cent increase in circulation, requiring additions to the staff; the budgetary surplus which might have otherwise been used to open Widener on Sundays was thus eaten away...
Last week no less forceful a finger than Arturo Toscanini's reminded U. S. concertgoers of Composer Strong. Over his weekly NBC broadcast Toscanini played a strong composition called Die Nacht ("Night"). Listeners were not surprised by its musty romanticism, its able orchestration, which recalled the period of Wagner, Brahms and Schumann. But they were surprised to hear that musty U. S. Romantic Strong was still alive...
...some form of vitamin B" every day for at least five days before operation. In emergency operations vitamins C and B are injected just before and just after operation. "On the third day following operation, the vitamin concentrates are resumed by mouth and continued throughout the full convalescent period...