Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...census-taking in Russia is that the peasants are census-shy. In the days of the Tsar they fled from or fought with census officials, fearing that their women were about to be carried off or that all the aged and feeble were going to be boiled in soap. Today their fears are less fantastic, more shrewd: they consider counting noses just another way of picking victims for purges, taxation, the army...
Whether or not he has granted the petition given to him Wednesday that the driveway in front of Eliot and Kirkland Houses be left open until 11 o'clock will be announced today by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager...
...stiffening of requirements for English A. They might encourage the merging of the Educational Records Bureau, whose examining methods are notably progressive, with the conservative, horribly inadequate College Entrance Examination Board. When conferring with, headmasters about candidates for admission they might him as to the academic inadequacies of today's Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds. In brief, Harvard can urge the schools to modernize their teaching of both method and content, also to give depth and integration to their training, so that the existing gap between...
WASHINGTON--Wary Senate leaders outmaneuvered the economy bloc today and obtained a unanimous consent agreement for a vote at 3 P. M. tomorrow on the McKellar proposal to restore President Roosevelt's relief bill to its original figure...
...YORK--The name of George Sisler, one of the greatest first-basemen of all time, today led all the rest as he and two other diamond immortals--"Wee Willie" Keeler and Eddie Collins--were elected to baseball's hall of fame...