Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is especially important because the figures show that teaching of students is increasingly done by non-professional instructors, assistants, and tutors. Such a situation may turn into a new type of tutoring school," he concludes
...long after the war began the Japanese showed signs of coveting the accumulated riches of the concessions. In North China the Japanese demanded that the foreign concession at Tientsin, and the Legation Quarter at Peking, turn over to their puppet Government for a new Federal Reserve Bank some $9,000.000 in silver belonging to the Chinese Government-controlled banks. When foreign authorities (backed by the French and British Governments) refused, the Japanese took the extraordinary procedure of issuing paper money "against" this silver...
...were further headaches. The Tokyo yen has been officially pegged at 27?, U. S. currency. With the Japanese-backed North China currency now cheaper, money-smuggling was due for a boom. That the financial situation of Japan in China (not to mention Japanese prestige there) had suddenly taken a turn for the worse was evident when Toshigo Somma, Shanghai secretary to the Japanese Minister of Finance, suddenly departed for Tokyo for advice and counsel. And in Japan proper, the Government began a census of gold which included plates, rings, antiques, but not teeth...
Harvey Taylor, chairman of the Jubilee Committee, stated yesterday that from all indications this looks as though it would turn out the largest dance ever to be given by a Harvard Freshman class. Besides the 250 girls with their escorts, about 150 Yardlings will probably attend as stags...
...Faculty as a whole, Mr. Conant should be able to see in the future a new flowering in all the departments of the College. Increased security undoubtedly will spike scholarly inhibitions and will produce a livening influence into even the most stolid of them. And this in turn will be related through the introduction of new methods into the undergraduates themselves, which after all, is quite an important consideration...