Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it is impossible to establish concrete standards in every arts course, a high degree of correlation between teaching and examining can be diffused over the University, so that an examination will be made as intelligently and corrected as intelligently, as the course is taught. Each teacher should give thought to the questions in an examination and to the manner in which he will judge answers to those questions...
...been vigorously repudiated by the whole Rumanian people. The Parliamentary Opposition has long denounced His Majesty's open flaunting in strongly anti-Semitic Rumania of a Jewish mistress notorious for selling political favors. But last week King Carol did not think of abdicating and Premier Tatarescu, although defeated, thought of a desperate measure by which he might...
...Island were in no hurry. Their tiny lanes rambled and twisted between their farms and homes. In 1807 New York City planners laid out a grid of narrow crosstown and wider up & downtown streets from 14th to 155th. The crosstown streets were placed at close intervals because it was thought that much of the town's up & downtown traffic would be borne by the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east. The grid street plan worked very well for a century. Old photographs of Manhattan's thoroughfares up to 1900 are so placid they...
...tryouts last October, its plot concerned an exuberant Englishman (Jack Buchanan.) who married two girls at once simply because he loved them both. After two months of meditation the producers decided that such wantonness would never go down, so Jack Buchanan was allowed wife No. 2 only because he thought No. 1 was lost in a shipwreck. Unfortunately for the show, this unworkable narrative contrivance does not go down so well either, but the music and dancing are topnotch, and Howard Dietz's lyrics are vastly superior to his book. When Jack Buchanan stops shuttling between boudoirs, he sings...
What the Eagle strike seemed to prove was that a publisher could get out his paper without the Guild, but that even though he escapes the Guild's full demands, the possible financial loss is terrific. Last week many Guild members thought they had so clipped the Eagle's wings it would soon be in receivership. Mr. Goodfellow's retort: "If there was the remotest possibility, do you think I would spend $30,000 in severance...