Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the nature and aims of the field it is obvious that it might better be entitled Political Economy, for every course tends to emphasize the fact that economics cannot be separated from politics. Through full courses on various special subjects like Public Finance and Utilities a broad survey of the subject is attempted, and although each course is designed to include the major problems existent today, it is of course impossible for them to provide the answers. Thus, the field does not intend to offer practical value--in the narrow vocational sense, since it feels that practical training should...
...pass in the spring their Junior year a general examination on the department of Economics, and in the spring of their Senior year an examination correlating Economics with either History or Government (this correlating exam may be abolished by 1942), and a third one on the student's special field, which is chosen from a list of eleven, including economic theory, economic history, money and banking, industry, public utilities, public finance, labor problems, international economics, policies and agriculture...
...Oriole cap, stepped gingerly to the plate, wrapped his gnarled fingers round a bat for the first time in 40 years. From 2,000 throats or more there rose a lusty yell as Oriole Coach Rogers Hornsby, recent manager of the St. Louis Browns, wound up for the special strikeout...
...approximate distance a cannon could throw a shot. In the case of the 13 Original States it has been pretty well established that the three-mile strip is theirs; in the case of States like California the natural confusion and controversy are a hundred times confounded. Last winter, a special session of the California Legislature concerned itself with little else. For off Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Wilmington Beach in Los Angeles Harbor and up & down the California coast are pools of oil thought to be worth...
...Methodists the world over, this week was Aldersgate Week, and fit 8:45 p.m. on May 24, the 200th anniversary of the warming of John Wesley, many a Methodist church was to hold special services. In England, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York were to preach in recognition of Wesley's contributions to their church. Last Sunday, throughout the U. S., some 5,000 churches of all denominations picked up an NBC broadcast dramatizing John Wesley's life...