Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Longworth, Floor Leader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell?banded together to praise the bill, to consolidate their voting strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
...ways his best. The burgomeister has two little sons. He finds out after his wife's death that one of them was fathered by someone else. After thinking about it until his mind accepts as sensible the suggestions put into it by frustrated instincts, he works out a scheme for getting rid of the son who is not his. The camera does not go into his mind but the action does. He and his son climb up a mountain. ... In the end Jannings does not put his scheme into practice; the interior struggle has been decided another...
...Harvard reader at least one feature of the Oxford tutorial system, as described by Mr. Frost in this morning's CRIMSON, will present a striking contrast to the predominant Harvard scheme. The majority of Oxford students those who are out for the Hon-ours Degree pursue their studies under the guidance of several tutors, each of whom is a specialist in some phase of the student's general field. The Harvard plan of having a single tutor guide the undergraduate throughout his entire course is the direct aultheals of this English method of instruction...
Closely connected with his repellent reserve was the stern independence of his mode of life. In his scheme, little things were kept small and great things large. What was the true reading in a passage of Aristophanes, what the usage of a certain word in Byzantine Greek,--these were matters on which a man might well reflect and labor. But of what consequence was it if the breakfast was slight or the coat worn...
...matter of the expense of evening operation should not prove difficult. The stockroom might be closed at 7 o'clock without great inconvenience to evening workers. In many courses, a definite scheme of analysis in a laboratory manual is followed, and instructors would be unnecessary. Only an occasional man need be retained, to keep order and insure the safety of the building...