Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed that the probable recipient of the Francis Lee Higginson professorship will be Professor Rollins, who has taken over all of Professor Lowes' courses. Rumor also names Professor Magoun, who will take Professor Robinson's courses, or Professor Murdock to succeed to the Gurney professorship...
...than it is platitudinous. This complexity has confounded governments when they have attempted to regulate human relations. It has also confounded scholars and professors. So vast is the mass of knowledge today that no one dares to face the whole of it; and the result is that scholars have taken refuge in specialization. More and more have they drawn into their tight little corners of specific knowledge, completely curtained off from the rest of the room...
...this tendency. There have been previous attempts in its direction, including Harvard's roving professorships, Chicago's divisional organization, and Yale's Institute of Human Relations. But these often amounted to administrative palliatives; and the suggested concentration in areas at Harvard is one of the most coherent steps yet taken to cut across departmental lines...
...British and French secret services did not know all this they were not worth their pay. That they did know it and did report it was made fairly evident at week's end when French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, badgered by Parliament for being taken by surprise by Herr Hitler's coup, blurted out that he had known something was in the wind as early as the Saturday before the Wednesday of the grab. He also said he had reported it to the British...
First returns in a nation-wide poll taken among student leaders in colleges throughout the country revealed approval of an embargo on war supplies to Japan...