Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their best field the information which they need. Broad knowledge of little depth is eminently desirable for most men at the Freshman level, for with certain exceptions, only those Sophomores who have acquired a bowing acquaintance with a large number of fields can be expected to choose wisely a subject for intensive study. Some fluctuation in department popularity is inevitable, but there need not be in the future recurring stampedes of the sort experienced in the past...
TIME does not make clear whether it is expressing editorial opinion or quoting Harvard's eminent Conant when it says, "teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession," teachers know too little about their subject matter, too little about children, too little about social conditions, and teachers "don't like children." TIME views as "alarming" the state of ignorance of America's million teachers, condescendingly admits that teaching "is an honorable profession" (as though anyone doubted it) and goes on to say that the 100,000 youngsters who begin preparation for teaching each year...
...ancient Hradschin Castle. Slowly he ascended its stairs to his suite, rooms used by Thomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, founders of the republic. Adolf Hitler's personal gold-bordered swastika was unfurled overhead, he stepped to a window and looked down on the twinkling lights of another subject city...
...reputation for having Manhattan's screwiest window displays (TIME, Dec. 5). Fortnight ago, Bonwit's smartly hired the world's No. 1 surrealist, Salvador Dali, to create two more screwy windows. Last week Dali gave Bonwit Teller more than it bargained for, all on the hackneyed subject of "Night...
...Published by the Hays organization for the first time last week were addenda to its famed production code, covering the subject of cinema crime. Excerpts...