Word: travaillant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faraday or a Richards could do the work, basing their schedule on the talents of an ideal experimenter rather than on those of the average burdened pre-medical student; or they have bowed to the University law which permits no course to have more than six hours of laboratory travail per week, placing this maximum figure in the catalogue, when in actual practice it is the minimum for a genius. This six-hour law was enacted lest a course require more of a student than should be credited to a single course...
Recently Deputy Leon Nicole, Socialist editor of Le Travail, published charges of graft and financial scandal in the canton government of Geneva. Swiss conservatives retorted that Deputy Nicole and his ally Jacques Dicke, a naturalized Russian, were really Communist agents in the pay of Moscow. They organized an anti-Communist mass meeting in Geneva's Community Hall. Editor Nicole urged his followers to break it up, then hold a protest meeting of their own in the Plaine de Plainpalais, the Union Square of Geneva. At this point hysteria seized Geneva authorities, who seldom have a riot to deal with. Troops...
...explains that he is going to walk home, not for the exercise but for a breath of fresh air. By that time the overlong tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation for a penniless Slav. The other, orchidaceous young Derek Williams (Journey's End) finally agrees to wed a lusty, rich young U. S. divorcee, with the private reservation that...
...Vagabond in desperation is going to attempt the horrors of mental travail as a counter irritant. Today at 10 he will go to Paine Hall to hear the last movement of Brahms' First, played and then discussed by Professor Ballantine. As a matter of fact he feels much more harkening to Herbert's "Kiss Me Again," but he has heard that Brahms is considered awfully good, albelt intellectual...
...amount of ground to be covered is not lessened by the vacation, while the closing of the laboratories means that the lost work must be crowded in during some other period. As for the lecture courses, no great rest is involved in their remission, since the amount of intellectual travail assigned is not noticeably less. The student himself gets out of the normal organization of his time, without any great gain during a day that has more resemblances to a lethal Blue Sunday than a vacation...