Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anthropology is one of the smaller fields. It is complete and well-integrated and the concentrators are pleased with it. Because of this very concreteness it should be concentrated in only by students who are especially interested or plan to go into some related type of work later. But though it tends to be narrowing in its scope, the department includes some of the best known men of the country within that scope...
...concentrator much freer in his later years if he can get Anthropology A or 1 out of the way Freshman year. (Freshmen need permission of the instructor to take them.) Otherwise he will have to do some very intricate planning to get in all the courses he wants. Though both of these courses are not required, they are worth taking...
...plane on occasion, but he doesn't like flying very much. What he does like, besides sailing, is building planes for other men to fly. DC-4 was the work of scores of experts, the result of the most intricate plans ever drawn for a single plane. But, though Douglas himself did not drive a single one of the 1,300,000 rivets in DC-4's skin & bones, he knows exactly where each one is and why it is there, knows how many hours and minutes it would take to replace them...
Meanwhile in Albany, Protestant ministers had attended a hearing on a proposal to strike from the State Constitution its article against gambling. Though they were voluble concerning the moral aspects of gambling, the ministers were unable to explain why gambling, any more than prostitution, should be specifically unconstitutional. Roman Catholics kept mum. Their tidy attitude on this question is that gambling is licit if: 1) the gamer owns and can afford to lose what he wagers; 2) he acts of his own free will; 3) there is no fraud; 4) there is equality among the parties to the game...
...down on both Saturdays and Sundays during the rest of May, which automatically cut proration figures 16%. Simultaneously the Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an emergency order cutting allowables for the rest of May 81,000 barrels daily to 405,000. Kansas set May daily allowables at 160,000 barrels though at the week end the other States in the Interstate Compact had not yet followed suit...