Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, a Florida attorney wrote us not long ago to ask if he could reprint a story our Science editor had written about displaced rats. For reasons that seem highly emotional, the attorney figured that the story would be a perfect analogy for a treatise he was writing on "Present Tides Of Immigration From Other States Into Florida...
Harkness' present to Harvard came as a complete surprise. To be sure, a Student Council committee had suggested in 1926 that a House system be established. But when Harkness offered money to Harvard, it came, as President Lowell said, "like a bolt from the Blue." Harkness had previously made important gifts to Yale, but Lowell had never looked to the Eli graduate to make such a substantial gift to Harvard...
...present, however, the University has rated a graduate center and three or four other projects ahead of the activities center...
According to Dean Kerby-Miller, the Administrative Board feels nay the present system of separate examinations involves educational disadvantages to Radcliffe students. She noted that professors with combined classes could not be present at the beginning of the tests to clarify instructions and answers about test material. "This is an important consideration in a matter as important as an examination," she said. "The time lost could mean a significant difference in a student's grade...
...Federal court as a last resort. He describes the trials, the controversial character of Judge Webster Thayer, the jury and the unorthodox way in which it was chosen, the witnesses and their testimony, and the involved question of the evidence. Although the purpose of this book is to present an objective view of the case, the authors could obviously not refrain from unconsciously injecting their own judgments. Professor Morgan writes: "Against a masterful and none too scrupulous prosecution was opposed a hopelessly mismanaged defense before a stupid trial judge." This comment is part of the chapter devoted...