Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chemistry, physics, and biology have the merit that their shortcomings are clear-cut, and often even glaring. As the Freshman Committee's report indicates, the quality of the teaching offers here as elsewhere, the greatest room for improvement...
...Freshman report has already expressed it, French A, the elementary course in the language, is satisfactory in its present form. However, French 1 and 2, which are generally admitted to cover the same ground, would doubtlessly function more efficiently if consolidated into one course. This new course should be divided into sections of two kinds: one for the men who after November Hours receive honor degrees, and the other for C, D, and E students. The sections made up of the honor men would stress the literary side of the language and in addition have a weekly lecture...
...When when nine crews crews collected 72 jerseys. In that crew to report to the start line on time caused the race to be rowed in darks against a heavy tide...
Last year, having won what he tersely referred to in his annual report as "the case of the U. S. v. Weirton Steel Co." (famed test of the Recovery Act's labor section), Chairman Weir, found time to ponder finances. Mr. Weir thinks that a big debt is a good thing for a company because it makes everyone work harder but he saw no reason for paying 5% for nearly $40,000,000 of borrowed money when he could pay 4%. Moreover, he was planning for his Detroit plant a new wide strip sheet mill, which is an appallingly...
This story of a Dutch rubber planter during the pre-War boom and the post-War gloom will not seem to U. S. readers so colorful as Conrad's nor so mordant as Maugham's. But as a straight report of a planter's life from A to Z it is a first-rate job. As a novel it cannot be rated quite so high...