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Word: remaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of its un-democratic nature, is the logical and most efficient body for the administration of Freshman activities; and that the elections should therefore be discarded. In ignoring this problem, the Council made a particularly serious mistake, for the leaders which emerge in the Freshman year regularly remain leaders throughout their four years because of democratic inertia, and in so far as they are illogically chosen the problem remains unsolved at its root. On the whole, however, the report is constructive, and its proposals should certainly go far toward improving Harvard politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COUNCIL AND HARVARD POLITICS | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

...must also be recognized by the general public. For, until it is, teaching standards will remain low, and teachers will be selected because they attend Sunday School or marry politicians' cousins. Only when the teacher is generally conceived as a technical expert in the art of teaching will this type of teacher be injected into the veins of secondary education. And only then will secondary schools gain the new life which President Conant sees as essential for the perpetuation of democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHING TEACHERS | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...picture economic support of France-symbolized by presidential approval of the sale of some 600 airplanes--- as leading the American people down the road to war, ignore America's stake in the peaceful resolution of European difficulty. Realistically speaking, it is futile to talk of isolation; in order to remain neutral in the event of a major European war it would be necessary, according to a survey made some time ago by the National Economic and Social Planning Organization, to limit all trade to peace-time levels and abandon American shipping except for narrowly defined neutral zones. Rigid control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCKING THE BARN DOOR . . . | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Japan's rubber-stamp Diet last week heard its new Premier, Fascist-minded Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, make some unorthodox admissions: 1) Chinese resistance was formidable; 2) in conquered territory Japanese troops controlled only cities and communications lines; 3) the Japanese Army will have to remain in China for a long time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Brave Words | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...stockholders their company's assets. Last week, with Guaranty voting; 71% of the stock, 73% of the stockholders approved. When the burial is completed, Alleghany will be directly over the C. & O holding a 25% interest in that valuable property. Robert Young's group, meanwhile. remains the largest owner of Alleghany-but Guaranty will remain in control as long as Alleghany's bonds are in default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Buried Bone | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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