Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another feature of this fall's program has been the added time available for practice. Warm weather has contributed its share, and the four-car scheme will provide an additional period of practice for the University squad till a few days before the Yale game. It is felt that in former years there has been too long an "off-season", with the inevitable letdown in physical condition. This season, with winter tank-work scheduled for after Christmas, there will be only a little over a month of complete rest...
...which will be prominent: Labor, which will have capital levy as its main plank; Liberal, united under Lloyd George, or more probably a center party (which would let in Mr. George's Conservative as well as his Liberal supporters), whose main plank will be a Government unemployment insurance scheme. This is expected to be more popular with the masses than Labor's capital levy. Moreover, Mr. George's American tour is adjudged to be of prime political importance to British politics, and it is not unlikely that some far-reaching program, " favorable" to U. S. and British...
...status of the Abrams controversy: If his sincerity is granted and his obvious vagaries overlooked, there are still grave obstacles that his theories must hurdle both on the medical and bacteriological and on the mechanical side. The vast majority of reputable scientists who will express an opinion believe the scheme unmitigated charlatanism. The idea of specific vibratory rates for given diseases is not inherently an absurd one, and such men as Dr. Crile (TIME, Nov. 5) may evolve a scientific electronic analysis of the body. But Abrams' case would appear to be negated by patent absurdities...
...wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position to complain much over unreasonable duties. Consequently it seems that Americans must stand by and observer, with the constant hope that some important dominion will frustrate that whole scheme...
...School. These graduates are known as "ancients", and, by returning to their ateliers, they give the younger men the benefit of their experience in offices. Some substitute for this system is badly needed in the United States, and it is with this idea in mind that the present scheme has been evolved...