Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many U. S. farmers actually read the bill, or read President Coolidge's veto message, will never be known. Historians, studying another debacle of agricultural legislation in the U. S., pointed out causes and clauses...
This article finds its starting-point in a remark recently made by a student of a sister institution, a member of the staff of its college weekly, to the effect that the faculty adviser read every word in every issue before the paper was printed. Every sheet of copy, every page of proof, he said, had to bear the censor's initials; and the printers had been instructed not to go to press until the faculty adviser had given his official...
Slocum's article in the Advocate read in part...
...difficult not to read into the Corporation's decision more significance than that due the simple solution of an administrative problem. In the eternal choice between brawn and brain as the dominant force in American universities. Harvard has gone on record that she will not be stampeded into the current craze for bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University...
...been on language probation: knows nothing cannot read French at all. When asked about German he replied, "Good God, that was four years age. Of course I remember nothing...