Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the United Press Associations, Karl August Bickel, keen, versatile Scripps-Howard newspaper executive, recently returned from around-the-world journey which included Russia. Soon Mr. Bickel continued: "While I visited Moscow Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, despite the fact he was so ill that he was compelled to remain in bed, was good enough to talk with me one evening ... of Russian-American relations...
...from five o'clock until as late an hour as you wish. The Library, moreover, will be inclined to lend its books to be taken away from Cambridge somewhat more freely than usual, and so far as it can be done without prejudice to the wants of those who remain in Cambridge...
...half week period before mid-year examinations, the students will read books. These books selected by appropriate professors, will be supplied the library in quantities; will have direct bearing on the studies of the earlier term; direct bearing on the examinations. Students will be expected (but not required) to remain in Cambridge for the period. Beyond laboratory work in science courses and other exceptional appointments such as conferences with tutors, they will be unrestrained. Behind this experiment lies the theory that U. S. education is too tightly hemmed in with supervision. Education is obtained by force feeding; not sought because...
...Federal Radio Commission last week decided to eliminate about 300 of the 694 radio broadcasting stations in the U. S. Reason: to clear the air "in public interest." Those will remain who can convince the commission that public convenience, interest or necessity needs them. Last year about 250 new stations opened...
...kinds of sliding doors and secret panels; but he is incapable of stealing the picture from a police dog called Rex in the picture (real name Napoleon). Although at an important crisis he mistakes Mr. Barrymore for a wax dummy, this animal adds enormously to what would otherwise remain a not very startling reiteration of the Jekyll-Hyde theme complicated by stupid detectives...