Word: phase
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students it will be a phase of the honor system. They are subtly invited to consider, by the provisions of the reading periods, that they will not be expected to consider the periods just so much holiday, applying themselves to the reading lists only at the very end of the period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
...purpose of the study is to account for the tremendous variation in the operating expenses of different concerns, and to indicate to individual firms points at which they can bring about economies. In addition to this phase of the study, the Bureau hopes to be able to throw some light on the relative importance and effectiveness of the several marketing activities and to clarify some of the merchandising problems of grocery manufacturers...
...newly autonomous state. In Wales, recently a similar movement has gained official recognition; and Welsh, which is still the only language of some hundred thousand people, has become the medium of instruction in the majority of the public schools. But this revivefication of language and culture is but a phase of the nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China, the symptoms have been the cause of international attention. Yesterday in India, natives decreed a day of mourning, and evoked bloodshed by rioting at the appearance of the Royal Commission on Indian Reforms, whose health...
...Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, mother of Marie of Jugoslavia, who visited Belgrade briefly, three weeks ago, then returned to Bucharest, Rumanian capital. Court gossips again recalled the increasing impatience with which Marie of Jugoslavia has long received her mother's well meant but garrulous councils upon every phase of a queen's private and public life...
However, without disrespect of either woman suffrage or Count Keyserling's opinion of its prowess, the latter's ideas might be said to verify the fact that distance lends enchantment and that the European point of view on this particular phase of American politics is due not only to a lack of understanding but also a lack of sympathy. Merely because an Esthonian philosopher is unable to understand why the majority of American male voters den themselves the Epicurean pleasures of liquors is hardly substantial foundation for branding the United States a matriarchate...