Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tutorial: "In the individual tutorial session the student is carrying the largest part of the discussion, and more important, the nature of the two-way conversation means that be must really project himself into what he is discussing and develop a comprehensive understanding of the topic...
Andrei Gromyko, back for the new U.N. session with a new title (Chief Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union) looked like the same old deadpan Gromyko. "I could smile," he growled at clamoring photographers, "but it would be artificial...
Screamed New York City's Local 555 of the Teachers' Union, C.I.O.: "The bill [will] let loose a reign of repression and fear . . . Legislators [have turned] these last hours of the legislative session into a Roman holiday thirsting for victims." The American Labor Party promised a test of the law in the courts at first chance. Said Senate Minority Leader Elmer F. Quinn: "We are burning down the barn to get rid of a couple of mice...
...first session, Smith hired a hall that would seat 50, but when applicants besieged him with calls, he hastily switched to the 550-seat Women's City Club auditorium. The women all but broke down the doors; 300 without tickets were turned away. Few of the 583 registrants missed a session; bankers and corporation heads began to clamor to get on the list of guest lecturers. Last week Smith had 1,100 women on the waiting list for his second course, to start in a few weeks...
...battle between the reformers and the politicians continues on Beacon Hill. This Wednesday afternoon the lower house of the State Legislature will consider Senate Bill 5, which would outlaw proportional representation as a method of voting in this state. The bill is only one of many proposed in this session to do the same thing, but the others either remain in committee or have already been reported out unfavorably to the legislature. Senator Joseph A. Melley introduced this measure in support of a petition by the "Massachusetts Citizens Committee for the Repeal of Proportional Representation," headed by Miss Edna Spencer...