Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell also considers a system of elimination, but seems to prefer for the qualification of an applicant his school record and his character as far as it can be ascertained. The results of such procedure must be at best unfair and indecisive, for "with the schools as unequal as they are in the United States", often with widely different standards, the records could hardly be compared; while no satisfactory means has yet been devised for forming snap judgments of a boy's character, far less of comparing characters. And "personal interviews wherever possible" would be as unjust to those...
...press talks of the "fitness" of public men. Politicians prefer the topic of "availability." But Senator
Egypt. Work in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor proceeded with painstaking slowness incomprehensible to the layman who would prefer to tear the secrets of the ages from TutankhAmen's breast in a day. Howard Carter and his staff have removed large quantities of highly decorated treasures, many of which are on exhibition in Cairo. Aided by 10,000 candlepower lights in the tomb, telephones and all the paraphernalia of civilization and modern archeological science, they are patiently removing and restoring the canopies and accessories surrounding the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh. But the casket itself will probably...
...Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations." There is evidence that a majority of the peoples of India would prefer to remain within the Commonwealth; but this is a question which will have to be settled later...
...Significance. The demands of the insurgents mean principally that they want to have full opportunity to bring their measures out on the floor of the House, debate them in extenso if they prefer, and force roll calls on their measures. The Democrats made preparations to support this program, in part, at least...