Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ick.es, long a fanatic on turning off unnecessary electric lights in the Interior Department, few days ago spied on scores of clerks skulking into the Department cafeteria for a quick bracer (coffee or tea), next day ordered the cafeteria closed after lunch...
...leading fad in U. S. schools and colleges today are the so-called "standardized" tests. There are more than 4,000 of them. They purport to measure an individual's intelligence, knowledge, character, personality, radicalism, musical tastes, artistic ability, tea-table form, inhibitions, morale. Last week one Oscar Krisen Buros, an associate professor of education at Rutgers University, emerged from a voyage of exploration in this jungle of tests. Harrowing was his tale...
Summons. It was five o'clock in the afternoon, and Mrs. Roosevelt was having tea in Manhattan with Frances Williams, 25, administrative secretary of the American Youth Congress, when a telegram arrived. It called for an ex-head of the Youth Congress, who had requested an opportunity to testify before the Dies Committee, to appear at ten the next morning. American Youth Congress has had Mrs. Roosevelt's support from the start, and she has denied that its leaders are Communists...
Johnson On the Spot. The occasion on which he was welcomed to China as Minister was a landmark in the course of U. S.-Chinese relations. At a vast, formal tea at the Grand Hotel in beautiful Tsingtao, the city's acting mayor rose, rustled his black silk gown, made a pretty, set speech in Chinese. An interpreter laboriously translated. Then Mr. Johnson got up, paused, bowed to hosts and guests. The audience set itself for a weary, long-winded speech which most of them would not understand. With a grin, Nelson Johnson proposed a toast and made...
...these immortal words ... we see the nucleus of most of our liberties. . . . Samuel Adams appealed to 'the rights of Magna Charta.. . .' It was in their name that your ancestors threw the tea into Boston Harbor. ... It was in their name . . . that they drew up that Constitution which Mr. Gladstone described as 'the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' And it was in their name that Abraham Lincoln fought a four years' war to loosen the fetters from the slaves and to preserve...