Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cast of Characters. Senator Clarence C. Dill of the great State of Washington, 42, genial, round-faced, onetime country school-teacher and newspaper reporter, famed as co-author of the scheme which controls radio throughout the land (TIME, Feb. 21), a sort of busybodied Herbert Hoover among Democrats...
...treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur. Why not? A few more such incidents, and Il Duce can mature his reputed scheme to seize Albania under pretext of "intervention to maintain Albanian sovereignty...
Significance. Dictator Carlos Ibanez shrewdly reckoned that the Great Powers would see "poetic justice" in his exile of Chilean "Reds" to an isle which they can make as "Red" as they please. An admirable scheme! But who are these Chilean "Reds" that Dictator Ibanez strove to conceal...
...plan itself is simple it calls for small contributions annually from every member of Rotary throughout the world. In this manner a fund sufficient to send many students from America to European Universities and vice versa would quickly be accumulated. It seems likely that Mr. de Rham's scheme will be approved by the International Rotary Convention this June. The purpose which has actuated the Jersey City Club is not by any means new but it is not and can never be shop worn. Mr. de Rham says, "it is hoped by means of this movement to strengthen the bond...
Undoubtedly this play holds possibilities for improvement over the present system of last minute cramming. It would eliminate a hurried review with the consequent mere superficial knowledge of the subject, and, by permitting a leisurely and thorough preparation, would tend toward deeper understanding of the courses studied. The proposed scheme would also bring greater fairness, for every member of the undergraduate body would have an equal amount of time for review, thus doing away with the necessity, in some cases, of attempting to prepare for four or five finals within several days. It is conceivable that this new plan might...