Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defects, already discovered are the operating expenses and the difficulty of finding enough men with the proper qualifications for tutors. The cost, great as it is, will somehow be met, once the system's full desirability is proved. The President's new scheme is an answer to the second problem. The English exchange will bring capable men from Cambridge and Oxford to help train an efficient personnel here; while the possibility of being chosen as one of the exchanges, as well as the increased prestige of the office of tutor, will encourage more good candidates...
Although the scheme brings joy to the Puritans, it has in it some note of gladness for the Cavaliers. The smut-hound may well lick his lips in anticipation; at last his labors of search are ended. With the new committee to help him he no longer has to read one hundred pages of "nice" literature to find one that is "not so nice." Possessed of one of the Committee's reports, he has his filth carefully listed with a specific statement as to why each book should not lie on the parlor table; he has but to select...
...tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac in "It is the Law". Mr. Hohi fills the part well; it is he who makes the play...
Mussolini holds under advisement a scheme giving facilities to Italian emigrants whereby they may participate in the political elections of the homeland...
...Federal Hospitalization Board, who wishes to see a Department of Public Welfare with four branches: Education, Public Health, Social Service, Veterans' Relief. Senator Sterling serves notice of a finish fight for a separate Department of Education. And the National Chamber of Commerce continues its attack upon the whole scheme as an improper usurpation of local authority by the general government...