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Word: pointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of fact, since the month of July 1938, I have demanded of the Fox Co. that the scenario and the film itself should be submitted to me, and I have not received any satisfaction from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...these battle cries are not loud enough. A vital starting point for attack upon secondary schools are the college board exams. Every evil of the lower learning leads up to, and away from, these. The college boards condition the kind and amount of content taught in the schools, and thus mold the type of boy which the colleges for the most part receive. And the result is that the schools teach little useful for the college course, and only what the board exams will test. It is a bizarre fact that because of the board exams much of what could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION BEGINS AT SCHOOL | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

...student found this out the other day when composing a message which he intended to pack a considerable wallop. He remembered gloomily that the Federal Communications Commission had laws about forceful language, and he decided to put his problem to the Western Union girl point-blank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

...team's victory as a springboard to leap into first place in the race for individual high-scoring honors. He tallied 2 goals and 2 assists and brought his point total for the season to 11, Princeton's Wyer rose to second place with 10 points, while Bill Morrison, of Toronto, is tied for third with Mel Williamson, of Queens, each with 9. McConnell was the league's high scorer in 1938. STANDINGS OF THE TEAMS College Won Lost Pts Toronto 3 0 6 McGill 3 0 6 Queens 3 2 6 Harvard 2 1 4 Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Leads Basketball League; McGill Ties Toronto in Hockey Race | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

...number of students employed increased by 67 over the previous year. Term time earnings reached the highest point since 1932-33, while summer earnings continued downward for the second successive year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many Job Applicants Given Positions, Plimpton Reports---$288,085 Earned | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

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