Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sargeant has been bothered by headaches most of the fall, and his final decision to give up football was made shortly after the Princeton game. Although he received no bumps in that tilt, his headaches returned, and the doctors decided not to run the risk of his getting a serious jolt later in the schedule...
...Administration's "Case" is presented by Ward Hussey '40, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, who urges shifting the ground of the controversy from the level of "verbal brickbats" to a plane of serious and rational consideration in "an atmosphere of cooperation...
...spent on French and German where two, if efficiently taught, would be equally complete. The problem of Plan C goes hand in hand with a thorough inspection of scholastic curriculum. If progress is to be made in college admission requirements, all down the line of high school subjects a serious critical revision is needed to shake off the paralyzing grip of tradition...
...report to the House of Commons. She was known to have operated off Newfoundland between Oct. 5 and Oct. 15, halting two Norwegian vessels and sinking one of them, in addition to Stonegate. Admiral Scheer was believed operating in the South Atlantic. To British shipping this news was as serious as the discovery of sharks on a bathing beach...
...editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit of bedwetting, in guests who are likely to stay a long time, is a serious tax on hospitality. . . . Somewhat unexpectedly, eneuresis has proved to be one of the major menaces to the comfortable disposition of evacuated urban children . . . and at a time of widespread domestic crisis we make no apology for offering a few dogmatic opinions and recalling some of the traditional remedies...