Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower instruction value. Will not the jump in size which must accompany extension of the Program to the entire body of Freshmen and Sophomores rob the courses of the top quality they have boasted this year! Despite the fact that the number of sections might increase and the intimate scale thus hold fast, the present practice of professors meeting in person with section groups would necessarily come...
...others had indicated that the 80th would. Congress had had no help from President Truman, who, when the 80th had convened, had sat back with the air of a man who has just passed a damp baby to someone else. Congress had had to wrestle with a full-scale reorganization (under the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act); changing a lot of old customs took time. All legislation had to be worried over by committees. That also took time...
...China's Government, liberal forces have grown stronger in Nanking. Chang Chun, whose own version of the East-West amalgam is between Chen's and T. V. Soong's, is premier with the Gimo's blessing. The interim regime that is to prepare for full-scale constitutional government and free elections, by next Christmas, contains few CC clique men, is strong with representatives of the more liberal "Political Science Group." Chen has an interesting explanation of the difference between his CC clique and the "Political Scientists." The latter, he says, were organized by the Kuomintang...
Many of the jobs being offered through the Placement Office are in the form of "executive training programs," which essentially are formalizations of the typical indoctrination process for any newly employed men. These programs are conducted primarily by large-scale concerns--Industrial, commercial, and financial--and are frequently glorified in elaborate prospectus. The prospective executive trainee will generally be offered a starting salary of anywhere from $185 to $275 per month; higher salaries have been obtained, but only where the applicant possessed some special talent or knowledge...
Under the regime of Mueller's gentle efficiency. Schoenhof's has become one of the two big distributors of new foreign literature in this country, as well as a small-scale publisher of German books by immigrant authors. Besides dealing in such standard items as Russian-German dictionaries and Scandinavian children's books, Mueller indulges one of his great loves by selling fine art prints on the side. The Renoirs and Pienssos add a supreme touch of individuality to the paper-covered French novels in the disorded front windows. But, evidently, love for European culture may conceivably...