Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What we need most to understand," said Professor Auer, "is the fact that the tutorial system is a fine thing for a college, but can not be fitted into a university. It is possible to make this system flourish in American universities, so long as these universities have undergraduate students, and the tutorial system is confined to them. However, some lecture courses are needed for stimulation; the work would tend to become intolerably boring if confined to tutorials and reading alone...
Seven league steps in this direction appear to be in the offing. To understand what the Conservatives might do it is necessary to look back a little. For some years past there has been within the Conservative Party a loyal opposition headed by Major Walter Elliot, who favors a positive, aggressive, policy in contrast to Stanley Baldwin's sit-tight-and-all-will-be-well program. This minorlty is now beginning to get the ear of the rank and file of the party because of a widespread public reaction against the present National Government's do-nothing policy...
After a quick inspection Dr. Compton boomed: "Perhaps not all of you understand that this is the first test of the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator as a complete machine. . . . Up to the time Dr. Van de Graaff built his small laboratory model [at Princeton] which developed more than 1,000,000 volts [TIME, Nov. 16, 1931], the highest direct current ever attained by man was about 800,000 volts. With this big generator we hope tonight to reach several million volts...
...Eddie Cantor. All three had been added to the board of ten producers and distributors whose duty it is to enforce the cinema code when it goes into effect this week. The choice of Marie Dressier and Eddie Cantor to represent the industry's performers was easy to understand. Comedian Dressier is a White House intimate of the Roosevelt family. Comedian Cantor visited Warm Springs last fortnight as representative of Hollywood's newly-formed Actors' Guild. More startling was the appointment of prim little Dr. Lowell. His job will be to superintend the efforts of the Hays...
...When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latine author extempore, and make and speak true Latine verse and prose, suoet aiunt Marti; and decline perfectly the paradignes of nounes and verbes in the Greek tongue: let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College...