Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumped New York's Representative Edward Curley. "I am reminded," said he, "of the story told of that famous French philosopher and statesman, Voltaire, who in his dying days, during one of his sicknesses, said to his physician with respect to this bill: 'You are trying to convey drugs about which you know little into a body about which you know less to cure a disease about which you know nothing...
Said the Court: "The only perceptible difference between [the NRA Schechter] case and this is that in the Schechter case the Federal power was asserted with respect to commodities which had come to rest after their interstate transportation, while here, the case deals with commodities at rest before interstate commerce has begun. The difference is without significance...
...therefore recommend that the sections in English a be co-ordinated in respect to material to be included in all sections, that a standard of length and frequency for all themes be established, and that the section men in the course confer together on themes as is the case with hour examinations in History I in order that marking may be of a standard, consistent nature...
...Last Year's report showed conclusively that in all Freshman Chemistry courses a wide difference exists between the laboratory time given in the catalogue of courses and time actually necessary for careful work. We found no improvement anywhere in this respect, and feel that this is a difficulty, which should be adjusted. Therefore, we repeat the table of discrepancies, using the figures secured in our more recent study...
...Boas had piled up enough data to convince him that such was not the case. His Mind of Primitive Man was published in 1911. When he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931, that book was called "A Magna Charta of self-respect for the 'lower' races...