Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined in the responsive reading, "we shall start lending when you stop spending." Appalled apparently by the universal belief that the administration is like a weather vane which voers to every zephyr from a brain truster, the President assured his audience that the Government "had hourly contact with every portion of the habitable globe." Such an OGPU should dispel all doubts that the fantastic gyrations of the Administration are the results of ignorance. On the whole, however, the speech had constructive implications from the long-term viewpoint, as the President is obviously passing from an idealistic to a realistic attitude...
Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
...been the subject of much criticism pro and con since its recent adoption. The system, briefly, is the omission of compulsory attendance requirements and the abolishing of all marks in courses. Students may take comprehensive examinations at the end of the "Junior" college course, which is a preliminary portion of the total four years work. Another comprehensive follows the "Senior" college course. Attendance and marks are disregarded. The courses are not designed for marks or for a minimum of knowledge to be crammed down the undergraduate throat, but as an aid to intellectual development...
Peck's Bad Boy (Sol Lesser). Sure of pleasing the Legion of Decency and that large portion of the cinema public which considers Jackie Cooper's pout irresistibly affecting, Producer Sol Lesser quite properly thought it unnecessary to make this picture a faithful transcription of its original. Admirers of George Wilbur Peck's 1883 classic may therefore be disappointed to find it projected upon the screen as an up-to-date tearjerker, in which young Bill Peck experiences every childhood misery known to Hollywood, from a cuff on the ear to forced separation from his mongrel...
President Conant, in his welcoming address of the Freshman Class, said, "An incalculably large portion of the value of a college education comes from the fact that the student is living with other men in a stimulating atmosphere of free discussion." Such beliefs, held by the officials of the University, have not only made the publication of the Confidential Guide pamphlet possible but have also made such expressions of opinion the normal course of events at Harvard. Yet the Alumni Bulletin, which portrays Harvard in soft tones to its graduates, criticizes this right when we apply it directly...