Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become president of Smith College. "Heretofore, you have been devoting yourself to the great art of 'getting by' "he said. Now it is time for the student to abandon one way of thinking as he enters college and taking another. He declared that one must attempt to master a subject rather than just think of getting safely through tomorrow's recitation...
...almost equal distance in a southerly direction, in Sharon. For those concerned with foraminifera it may be interesting to note that there is a library of 2,000 works about foraminifera at the Cushman Laboratory. Those not concerned with foraminifera are probably glad to learn that the subject is being investigated anyway...
...heir to the Habsburg dynasty was found shot with his young and tolerably beautiful mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera. All those within scrutiny were sworn to life secrecy by the Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
Formal adult education involving any form of school discipline has never appealed to the grown-ups of any nation. But U. S. adults have long been gluttons for any form of education provided they can choose its subject, take it or leave it, play it as a sort of game in which every one can win by giving himself a higher rating than he gives to his contemporaries. Hence among best sellers not of a year but of a generation, the Boston Cooking School Cook Book and Emily Post's Etiquette rate close to the Bible. According...
...dinky loo-watt Station KFJZ at Fort Worth. Last month, Elliott himself drove unheralded to San Antonio, sipped a highball, autographed a legal document and thereby contracted in his own name to buy another 100-watter, (250 watts in the daytime) Station KABC at San Antonio. Both deals are subject to approval. by the Federal Radio Communications Commission which last week held its hearing on Station KFJZ...