Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement last night that the Cabinet of Phillips Brooks House has accepted the constitution prepared by a special committee climaxes the swift, continuous series of growing pains enjoyed by the House in the past three years. The effect of this growth can be noticed in such phases of P. B. U. work as the Social Service Committee, which this fall has sent an amazing number of student volunteers to the scattered settlement houses of Greater Boston, and also in the Personnel Adviser. Now the development and concentration of all phases has been accomplished by the drawing up of a constitution...
...presses is a special report of the Harvard Street Traffic Bureau's findings from extensive driver clinic tests. Two facts are revealed: (1) that on the average, drivers who have had accidents do worse on the tests than others, and (2) that the tests themselves have reduced the number of accidents...
This second fact is important because it shows when drivers are told they have a certain handicap, they automatically compensate for it by extra caution, even without special practice or training, according to the report...
...believe that most of mankind is bad, that Jesus Christ will return to take members of the "True Church" into Heaven); Perfectionist (Methodist and "Holiness" groups which hold that moral perfection should be the goal of Christians); Charismatic (Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" sects whose members consider themselves endowed with special charismata or gifts, such as the gift of speaking in "unknown tongues"); Communistic (the almost-defunct Shakers, the defunct Oneida Community, the still-existing Church Triumphant of Estero. Fla., whose members believe that the world is a hollow ball, with men living inside it) ; Legalistic (Old Catholics, Mennonites, Primitive Baptists...
Formed four years ago, the A. F. C. has lobbied successfully in 18 States for laws against these alleged practices. In answer to A. F. C. demands, the U. S. Department of Justice made a nine-month investigation this year, began presenting evidence to a special Federal Grand Jury in Milwaukee last September. The jury is still in session, but A. F. C. members last week were unanimously confident of victory under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Said new A. F. C. President Owen Lewis Coon: "I can see the breaking of monopoly ahead in this business...