Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as dawn broke the resolution passed, was sent to the Württemberg State Diet with an urgent request that it be brought at once before the Reichstag in Berlin. The International Labor Office figures the income of the average Berlin wage earner at 3,364 marks...
...need for improvement of educational methods is urgent. The policy at Harvard, and probably at most other American universities, places almost no emphasis on the pedagogical ability of its instructors and professors. Here scholarship, and not inspiration or skill as a teacher, determines the pay and rank of the faculty members. The interest which the man takes in his students, and the sympathy with which he responds to their problems and difficulties, is ignored when promotions are made. As a result the able and ambitious man turns from his students to the presses, for he sees that the royal road...
Toward mighty Khyber Pass, the Empire's most romantic and reputedly most dangerous frontier, traveled Earl Willingdon last week, taking along the golden throne on which he sits as Viceroy of India. For this elaborate pilgrimage there were urgent reasons of state...
...lunch every day. discuss the world's affairs. His next most important chair has for five years been the one around on Broadway at the head of the directors' table of United States Steel Corp. Mr. Morgan assumed that position in 1927 upon Judge Gary's death at the urgent request of his good friend the late George Fisher Baker. It was understood that his duties were to be next to nominal, the position temporary. Last week Banker Morgan resigned this second most important chair, saw placed in it Myron Charles Taylor, long groomed for the post as chairman...
...code of numerical symbols originated in 1879 by the late Walter P. Phillips, head of the original United Press, is still in use. But the numbers most commonly used-"30," "73" and "95'' ("urgent") do not appear...