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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to be among the first to plug Lindbergh for President in 1940; perhaps on a no-party platform of pure Americanism through this period of international stress. CHARLES F. MCREYNOLDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

With a fast moving script of short episodes tied together by the announcer's comment, "Adventures In Education" will stress a new technique devoted especially to entertainment. Although describing the work of the Undergraduate Faculty, the program is really a play in itself along the lines of "The March of Time." Script writing and direction are in the hands of Lawrence Lader, '41, and Lincoln Bloomfield '41, while the east includes Raymond Dennett, Gradoste Secretary of Brooks House, Langdon Burwell '41, John Kessler, '42, Lader and Bloom field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. WILL INTRODUCE NOVEL RADIO SERIES | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

Furthermore, from a strictly utilitarian point of view, it is disadvantageous to move into these already overcrowded fields. The history of concentration fields shows that in periods of social or economic stress, such as the last ten years, students stampede into the social sciences. This recent stampede has led to overcrowded courses, insufficient tutorial staffs, and insufficient departmental budgets in the social sciences. For the University's funds are pigeon-holed; they cannot be shifted at will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCHOLAR'S CALL TO ARMS | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...desk in the blue-walled room stood a vase of roses; on the table behind a vase of gladioli. Signs of stress were an electrically tuned radio on a chair near the fireplace, another radio near Eddie Moore's door, a calendar from which careful Secretary Moore had forgotten to tear off the August sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Stress economic fallacies involved in aggressive nationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists & Headwaiters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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