Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the opening horseplay, at last week's Duck Dinner every diner except one was dead serious about the problem of North America's diminishing wild ducks. The lone, tipsy dissenter held up proceedings for ten minutes while he argued with great gravity that the press of urgent civic problems made duck discussion trivial if not unpatriotic. Earnest conservationists listened with growing restlessness as other speakers deplored the duck decrease, bemoaned the fact that since most ducks breed in Canada there is little the U. S. can do about it. The audience wanted something constructive. They...
...small sector like History 22, the History of France to 1461. Medieval History needs a middle course on Continental Europe patterned after Professor Langer's course. It should also embrace Germany--now untouched by the specialized courses on Medieval Europe. The courses in Early Modern History are also in urgent need or revision. Only a person gifted with indefatigble energy and a sense of humour could get a good knowledge of this field. He would have to take the first halves of Histories 42, 50, and 55, the second half of History 40 and all of History...
...cease to meet before the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict between love and duty. That decision has often been taken by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is reinforced by the glamor of the throne, the moral obligation is more urgent for that reason. "Thirdly, let us remember that any kind of love which can be in conflict with duty is not the love of which the Gospel speaks. Love which has its roots in mutual attraction and passion can be united with love which is the very nature...
...recognition of an urgent need for cooperation instead of competition between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Education, a new joint program, designed to present a unified course of instruction for the training of teachers for secondary schools has been put into effect for the first time this year. Sixty-three candidates are enrolled for the new degree...
...reorganization. Though the proverbial horse had fled, it seemed better to lock the door once again than to forget entirely and to move on in willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large, too radical, and it was argued that every cent available was needed for more urgent matters. Wages and profits together were low and any deductions for social insurance would have gone hard. Under these conditions the bills for employment, old-age and health indemnity lay unnoticed, waiting till times should improve...