Word: surest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure, deserves the importance accorded it by the report, but the elevation of teaching standards is not to be accomplished by the method suggested. The standards of education cannot be raised by jerking the structure of research out by the roots, though this might seem the simplest and surest method. Research, though it may have been discredited by some uses made of it, forms the actual foundation of any higher educational institution other than a tutoring school...
...voter--and they have failed in that they attacked the Tiger in his stronghold. The Scabury investigation, one of the most successful attempts at reform, did not try the voter but worked through the law courts. Reforms must come through the top to be effective, and the surest method is to strike at Tammany's purse. Hence the bankers can at last make the tiger toe the line; and willy nilly he must lick the hand that feeds him or he will not be fed. Only when the future sees present debts paid off will he be able to stalk...
...been said that soldiers enlist in the Chinese army because it is the surest way for the lower class man to avoid starvation. When China was declared a republic in 1912 under Sun Yat Sen, a civil war began which has not yet been terminated. Hope was expressed that a common fee in the person of Japan would cause the hostile factions to unite, but local rivalries which make any concentrated action impossible still exist. Despite the fact that China has been practically without one central government for years, taxes are collected regularly, police duty is performed...
...weeding out the plodders. With the elimination of these men, whose theses are often more statistical records of insignificant events, professors would be freer for assisting abler students. Moreover restriction of membership in the Graduate School to first-rank scholars, men of definite intellectual vitality, would be the surest means of increasing the School's prestige and of attracting more students of the best type...
...These Our Children? (RKO-Radio). "Children have no inhibitions or false ideas and people over 50 are usually sensible enough to have dropped them. ... I think if a picture or play was produced with only children ... or oldsters ... in the cast, it would be the surest safeguard . . . against the critics. . . ." So says seasoned Marie Dressier. Director Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron) shares her respect for young actors. In Are These Our Children? which he wrote himself, he takes a cast mostly under 18, guides them through a depressing epic of juvenile delinquency which ends at the electric chair. His story corresponds roughly...