Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Growth Not Uniform...
...growth in numbers with which we are familiar has not been uniform. While the total of students enrolled in the University has been from 1,300 in 1879 to 11,000 in 1929, the total in Harvard College has been from 800 to 3,200. (I use round numbers.) The University has grown eight-fold; the College but four-fold. To put it in another way: in our time Harvard College contained the great majority of the University students; now the other departments contain the great majority...
Gendarmes saluted. Out stepped His Royal Highness Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont, his sleek hair shining like patent leather, medals gleaming, a pale blue sash across the front of his grey-green silver epauletted uniform. A band struck up the Italian royal hymn...
...valor surged, however, in the breast of the Dictator's trim aide-de-camp, Victor Larenas. Careless of spoiling his gaudy green uniform, he rushed up to amateur assassin Olachea, grasped him by the neck, flung him to the ground...
...Uniformity. The general desire for uniform state laws found expression in several recommendations of the Association. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Siate Laws was ordered to draft a law, to be presented to the state legislatures, providing for a scientific treatment of criminals. The statute is to grant psychiatric service for all criminals, and before any criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions...