Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research program of the Harvard Bureau has differed in one respect from that conducted by others. While the safety factor has always been recognized as the most important part of the problem, the Harvard bureau has been equally interested in the factor of congestion as it affects the fullest and most efficient use of automotive transportation. Thus, much of its research energy has been and will continue to be devoted to a study of the "business" aspects of street and highway transport. This is especially demonstrated in its studies of new and more efficient types of street construction which...
...Peaceable Means" & Warlike. By a recent resolution of the Assembly of the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 18), it was recommended that signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty signed at Washington in 1922, and pledging respect for the territorial integrity of China and the Open Door meet again soon. As any such meeting is infuriating to Japanese minds, President Roosevelt has not wished to act as host in Washington, "and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has felt the same about London. Last week King Leopold III of the Belgians, Statesman Sovereign of the smallest Nine-Power Treaty signatory, agreed readily...
...German Government," read the official text, "is ready, just as are the British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...
...best. Today, football in the South still differs from football in other sections of the country. It is frequently played under a hot sun, while spectators sit in shirt sleeves eating ice cream, and players go onto the field barelegged, but the quality of Southern football wins respect from coast to coast. For, as a century ago the course of empire took its way Westward, the course of football now takes its way Southward...
...among the tribesmen, a considerable number of Indian gigolos, a few serious pieces of fiction. Of this fiction the work of Oliver La Farge, notably his Pulitzer Prize-winning Laughing Boy, has stood out as the best, marked by accurate observation, sensitive understanding of the complex Indian psychology, a respect for their cultural dignity. Anthropologist turned writer, an official advisor to the Hopi, a director of the National Association on Indian Affairs, Oliver La Farge has made himself an Indian spokesman in Washington as well as in fiction...