Search Details

Word: todays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Finn gets emotional only after much brooding, and usually without much logic. Today he forgets that under Tsars Alexander I, II and III his people were the best-treated minority in the world. Instead, he remembers the blundering misrule of Nicholas II. Even the fact that in 1918 many Red Finns fought hand-in-hand with their Russian comrades against Finnish and Russian Whites cannot change his traditional hatred and contempt for the Slav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Such Nastiness | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...deafness). In 1934 Adolf Hitler cured the patient by cutting off the head. Since then most of the world's composing has been done outside Germany, much of it in London. Most of the music recently composed by Londoners has been as monotonously indigestible as Yorkshire pudding. But today critics agree that the new London school of composers has produced one top-flight genius: 37-year-old William Walton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sitwell to Heifetz | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Divinity School students are receiving increasing instruction in the social sciences and "clinical" training in institutions, Dean Sperry stated in his annual report, issued today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity Students Receiving More 'Clinical' Training, Dean Sperry Says | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...America is in a more exposed position in the Far East today than in Europe, and we must not let the war in Europe cause us to forget the crisis the United States faces in the Eastern Hemisphere," John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Warns U.S. Not to Overlook Crisis in Its Far Eastern Relationships | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next