Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter from a recent correspondent of yours m referring to a lady of prominent Virginia lineage, who is the acknowledged fiancee of the Duke of Windsor, makes highly unpardonable use of the word "mistress" [TIME, March 8.] Gentlemen, and Kings whether active or abdicated, do not marry "mistresses," and it is high time that the cheap tittle-tattle of the scurrilous should end. . . . There is a strong sentiment in England as there is here that both lady & lover have been treated in a most unchivalrous and dastardly manner both by Cads Clerical and Cads Temporal, and it is high time...
...human pre cursors hundreds of thousands of years old, a U. S. find which is alleged to be even 20,000 years old is a sensation, and doughty irreconcilables like the Smithsonian Institution's Ales Hrdlicka stand ready to assail with sledgehammer blows the validity of even that recent dating. "It is to the everlasting credit of professional American anthropology that it has not succumbed to the itch for ancestors by giving recognition to the many dubious and spurious finds whose claims have too often received a facile acceptance abroad. No one can deny that this salutary state...
...FORTUNE'S investigation into official and final Department oi Commerce reports and according to the lines' own findings. Example: the pilot was thrust into an unnecessarily dangerous situation by faulty dispatching (once), radio troubles (often) or bad weather forecasting (often). No crash of a scheduled plane in recent years has been due to structural failure of the plane itself. No one has ever proved that a radio beam has failed, but any map of the radio ranges shows that many more are needed...
...been a trend in the direction of such a differentiation of preparation through the granting of course reduction to high honors candidates and by the greater amount of time and attention given to those students who give evidence of profiting most from a good deal of independent work. The recent vote of the Faculty Council, therefore, merely gives formal recognition to a development which has been going on for a number of years...
President Conant's recent commentary on a shift away from the Classics and Romance Languages as fields of concentration found some support yesterday in University C's report on tentative 1940 concentration preferences...