Word: referable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These doctors who say that doctors would not render good medical care if they were salaried (TIME, March 27) may speak for themselves, but there is one big professional group that would be shocked if its "patients" ever offered to pay individually for services. I refer to college professors (of which I am one) and other teachers...
...creative artist, but also the purposes and desired results of education in the fine arts. Certain traditional functions of the college art department have a degree of usefulness, to be sure, which is relatively independent of these world changes, because they have a value which remains relatively constant. I refer to the preparation of the scholar-specialist whose activity will add to the sum total of what is known about a man, a work of art, a period, a school. The future scholar learns the methodology of research; he acquires precision and a scrupulous honesty in using his materials...
Official purpose of the display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied...
...porches. Whenever he could obtain work of that sort no matter how badly he needed clothes he would first always subscribe to two or three years of TIME Magazine. And he kept every copy since 1931. He also had a loose-leaf notebook he had indexed as to reference he could refer to back any year. There were so many copies I had to keep them in the garage, some in the attic. But this May 1937 Sunday, he was home here in Springfield from Cincy, the last thing he said was, "Mother please don't ever destroy...
...Greene: "I must beg of you, Mr. Savile, that you will not refer to the English Church as if it were some female of your acquaintance. I tell you, I cannot digest my dinner if you will talk...