Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This book says in effect that if the militarists want realism, we will give it to them. Here is war not seen through the lenses of anybody's prejudice but caught in the act by the camera. . . . Back of the camouflage of uniform and music, oratory and popular cheering, this is the gist and essence of war at the point where it specifically operates. . . . Let this book, then, do its quiet work. Let it say . . . that war is a mad and barbarous business...
...distinction between a Reserve Officer's Commission and a job as Letter Carrier, Fireman, Dog Catcher, or Street Cleaner, as there is between a professor of Greek literature and the proprietor of a Greek restaurant; or as between an architect and a brick-layer. The mere wearing of a uniform is no sign of boorishness, nor is it the disgraceful badge of submission to a system. In fact, the season is approaching when even the aesthetes put on their traditional caps and gowns...
...Conditions for the Teacher of English," Miss A. P. Butler, Cambridge High and Latin School; "Correcting Reading Tastes and Habits," Mr. H. V. Coryell '11, Browne and Nichols School; "Can Teaching Ability be Objectively Measured?" Mrs. G. E. W. Foster, Somerville High School; "Can Marking Standards Be Made Approximately Uniform in an English Staff?" Miss A. H. Spaulding, Brookline High School; "The Problem of the Non-Literary Pupil," Mr. L. C. Zahner, Groton School; "Tests and Examinations in English," Dr. E. R. Smith, Beaver Country Day School; "Departmental Administration of Special Projects," Mr. S. Thurber '01, Newton High School...
...Congress based in part upon the findings of the defunct Wickersham Commission, President Hoover urged reforms in U. S. criminal court procedure and the Federal Bankruptcy Act. He also repeated his recommendation for a District of Columbia Prohibition enforcement law. Recommended was authority for the Supreme Court to prescribe uniform rules of practice and procedure for inferior courts to speed up appeals and reduce congestion. The President would permit a defendant to waive indictment by a Federal Grand Jury, bring a corporation to trial in any State where it does business and turn all possible juvenile cases over to State...
...daughter. The connection between these dramatic entities lies solely in the fact that they occur on the same stage, and weary first-nighters could heartily concur in the German engineer's observation that "this isn't a country, it's a debating society." The uniform worn by a commandant of Free State constabulary is very impressive...