Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare treat to be allowed to see such a brilliant and learned letter as the one addressed to Mr. Conant protesting the recommendation in his annual report to abolish the Latin requirement for an A.B. degree. With fine generosity the authors have had their efforts printed and sent to all the officers of the University gratis (a Latin word), though with seemly modesty they use the aliases, "Harvard '22," and "Harvard...
...Dealers of New York City whom Mr. Ickes ordered to oust Republican Robert Moses from the Triborough Bridge Authority before more Federal funds would be advanced (TIME, Jan. 21). When the Virgin Islands trouble broke last week Mr. Ickes was in Manhattan telling the Dutch Treat Club: "I was introduced to you as the Secretary of Interior, but ... I should have been introduced as Pharaoh's daughter. How was I to know that New York had only one honest man to serve as a public official...
After the concert Yehudi had a birthday supper with his family and a few close friends. When he had gobbled his chicken salad and his ice cream & cake he was dispatched to bed. Two days later, for a special treat, he was taken to see In the Pasha's Garden...
...absurd demand that a cinema which purports to treat a historical theme should be judged according to the fidelity with which it cleaves to the factual skeleton of the past has long been abandoned. When there is no real assurance that deep and erudite works of scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives...
...feel that we need to raise our standards in regard to the requirements for continuing at Harvard. . . . Our problem is not to grade our less brilliant students more harshly nor to treat more ruthlessly those who are able but unwilling; our problem is to find ways and means of awakening the enthusiasm and interest of the lazy and to guide those who are having difficulty in one group of courses into other departments of learning for which they may be much better equipped...