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Word: remains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much for the ideal. The details of the course of action remain to be outlined, and these will prove hugely difficult. For one, the University proposes rapidly to extend on a large scale its existing facilities for supervision and guidance. This is hardly enough. This would amount to the institution of tutoring merely to compete with that in the Square; and not even on equal terms, since its scope would be more limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY ACTS TO RESTRICT TUTORING | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

...Ford employe of two years' standing may take out $1,500 in term life insurance plus $15 weekly sickness and accident benefits. The premium is $1 a month deducted from paychecks and matched by at least an equivalent sum from the company. How much Ford will kitty in remains to be calculated by actuaries, but will probably come to some $1,200,000 a year. Employes will pay $1 a month no matter what their age, need take no physical exams. Because the average age of the entire group is expected to remain constant, the insurance is offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Third Largest | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...does at the root of a college system which has only one common requirement for all its graduates: that they be able to write and swim. The plan faces two alternatives. It may become incorporated in the curriculum as an informally taught course in American Civilization. Or it may remain strictly extra-curricular, in the hope that enough undergraduates will voluntarily participate to justify its existence and providing for them a welcome relief from the more formalized pattern of course work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR CIVILIZED AMERICANS | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

Despite the lose, the Indian remain in first place, but only because they have played once more than the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Split Twin Bill | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

Earwicker's dreams, like most people's, are troubled by hints of depravity, but they remain hints. Even suggestive words are disguised. Is the book dirty? Censors will probably never be able to tell. Melting and merging in Earwicker's dream-state, like smoke in a fog, readers sense Anna, the girl with whom he is in love: Anna on the riverbank, Anna Livia, Anna Livia Plurabelle. Through the menacing or ridiculous distortions of his dreams, the thought of Anna Livia breaks with singular lyric beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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