Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week House Ways & Means Chairman Collier announced: "In order to balance the budget at this session I'll support the sales tax as a last resort. I want the new administration to have a clear sheet March...
...episode is a decisive reply to people who think that the demands of college editors for freedom of the press is a trivial matter. In the East it is almost inconceivable that there should be a resort to the crude mob methods of American obscurantism. Yet in this case they are revived, and in a university environment, by a commonplace exercise of freedom of speech. It is obvious that if all such brutalities escape drastic punishment, then criticism of any sort must come to an end where they are condoned or extenuated. The man who would reinstate such transgressors certainly...
...COLLEGE PLAN. A successful tutorial system, offering definite guidance to the individual can make this new institution a valuable factor in the curriculum, but a successful tutorial system itself demands more instructors and advisers. Sufficient indication of this requisite is given at the present. Many instructors are obliged to resort to testing the student on reading period preparation, not being able to devote to every man the time necessary for discussion of essay work in that particular field. Yale News
Post Office's Brown: "It has been the department's policy to retain all regular employes on its rolls notwithstanding the continued shrinkage of mail volume. . . . Much more harm than good would result from throwing great numbers of postal workers into the ranks of unemployed. Resort should not be had to further rate increases as a means of balancing the postal budget. ... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to restore the 2-cent rate to local or drop letters...
...necktie, then opens the door. What he does next is impossible properly to describe. The last recipient of Mr. Glidden's largesse is Mrs. Walker, the most energetic inmate of an old lady's home. She uses her money to turn the home into a sort of resort hotel, where games of chance, cursing, radios and cookery, previously forbidden, are encouraged...