Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman Report also raised the question of whether it was necessary to make English A-1 such an elementary course. Couldn't it accomplish its object of teaching men to write their mother tongue in a fairly accurate and facile manner amid more grown-up surroundings. After all, no Freshman is expected to be a complete dolt...
...receipt of the following letter from the Secretary of the Interior," President Roosevelt wrote tersely to Congress. The letter from embarrassed Harold Ickes: "I regret to report the loss of enrolled bill HR 6084 authorizing a bond issue for Ketchikan, Alaska, which was delivered to my office on May 3 by a messenger from the White House. The bill was receipted for by a messenger at my door. . . . I have caused everyone to search all papers in and on their desks. . . . I am chagrined to have to report the loss of this bill in spite of the care with which...
That paragraph, seemingly clear enough, seemed to be the key-paragraph in the social service report presented last week to the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-a body representing all the Methodists eastward of Third Avenue in New York, on Long Island and in Connecticut as far as New Haven. Without much argument the Conference adopted the report. This seemed to mark the Conference as forthright, courageous. It seemed to demonstrate that the New York East Methodists had thoughtfully examined Capitalism, had totally and finally rejected it and were ready to lead their people on toward...
...something more in conformity with our religion'' (TIME, May 29, 1933). Since then many an individual Methodist and a few conferences have continued to move leftward, without exhibiting anything more substantial than warm, pious discontent. Typical of the viewpoint of "Christian economy" was last week's report which critically covered everything conceivable from sharecroppers and Section 7a to William Randolph Hearst, and only became specific in recommending that pastors study the 90-year-old Rochdale consumers' co-operative movement. Typical also was the amiable alacrity with which, when they came to the question of Japan...
...reorganization very similar to the recommendations of the committee, which advocated a change in Physics C toward making it more thorough and more advanced. More advanced should mean, however, that the course ought to go more deeply into fundamentals, rather than "passing rapidly over them," as stated in the report. A further change that would lighten the burdens of the department would be to open Physics B to men who had had physics in school, but were inadequately prepared for more advanced courses...