Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON, in which he stated that the recent Supreme Court decision dealing with executive control of oil production "has little legal significance." The Court stated that Section 9 (C) of the N.I.R.A. "goes beyond those limits" "of delegation which there is no constitutional authority to transcend" and that "due process of law requires that it shall appear that the order is within the authority of the officer, board or commission and, if that authority depends on determinations of fact, those determinations must be shown." Thus, the "legal significance" of the decision is that the Court is limiting the extent...
...major difficulty, of course, is that tutorial ability is an elusive quality. By what evidence is it to be weighed, compared, and rated? The fruits of research become public property and can be judged by objective standards, while tutoring is, by its very nature, an individual and almost secret process. It's success or failure, moreover, may depend on the variable qualities of the students who are tutored. Nevertheless, one who takes the trouble to inquire soon learns that in each Department rather definite opinions exist as to the ability of the several tutors. One is told that "Jones...
...forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer," the implication may justify be made that perhaps that is a fault of some of the personnel of the system and also that perhaps the admissions office has been at fault in admitting men unprepared to participator in the fundamental educational process of the College. The whole objective of the administration during the past few years, through the mechanism of general examinations, tutorial system, abolition, of compulsory class attendance and hour examinations, has been the granting of greater independence to students in order that they may master one field of learning thoroughly...
...fish have hip-bones-rudimentary little rods unattached to the backbone but helping to support rear fins. Further improvement of the pelvis enabled amphibians to crawl, later animals to walk on all fours, humans and ortho-grade primates to walk upright. (Once possessors of good hips, whales reversed the process, lost most of the pelvis by taking to the water...
...contestants must not have professional assistance; 2) they must not use 35 millimetre film and reduce it to the 8 or 16 millimetre sizes to which the contest is limited. Since it is impossible to detect reduced film, each entry is accompanied by a sworn statement that no such process has been used...