Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June. Mrs. Roosevelt's patient swatch-fingering was an innocent little act cooked up by the U. S. wool-growers' publicists. (Commodore Robert B. Irving of the Queen Mary acted as special courier to take Her Majesty's material to London.) Mrs. Roosevelt put statesmanlike point upon the act by saying: "We [herself and Queen Elizabeth] are both glad to emphasize the value of good wool in the trade of both countries...
...psychological terminology on the grounds that the student "loses all such indispensable assets for efficient learning and its retention as interest, motivated incentive, and adequate epperceptive basis for understanding what is taught, and adequate opportunity to apply, test, and fix it through participating experience." Hutchins is not needed to point out that giving the student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils of traditional education. One can hope that...
...politically possible to crect the foreign trade controls, the internal industrial and agricultural management, and the price fixing, that would be necessary to prevent our economic system from involving us in the conflict. It is not "war mongering," as Hitler and American isolationists insist, for the President to point out this fact. It is enlightened common sense...
Hanford played goal in every game, but the other positions were occupied by a number of men. Livingston and Edmunds held down the point, while Wilcox, Tonner, Gilbert, Behr, Benedix played coverpoint...
Leaving a week before Easter Sunday, the squad entrained directly for Philadelphia, where, on Tuesday, they lost to Penn 8-3. Jess Willard played a brilliant game, scoring in the second and third periods, while Doug Anderson gained the third point in the last canto...