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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been a great deal of adverse criticism of the system now in use, according to Mr. Pennypacker. Two methods of examination are possible: the restricted plan, whereby a student takes his examination during his preparatory years, and the comprehensive plan, which requires but one exam, and that during the summer of the year in which the student is to enter college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOMAS HEADS BOARD TO REVISE ENGLISH EXAMS | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

...efficiency of international finance has seemingly reached its maximum. The clearance principle, the economizer of money, has reached its broadest ramifications. Just as the city clearing house facilitates commercial transactions, so the World Bank expedites the use of credit in its reserve holdings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW SPIRIT | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...Only Finland, Prince Edward Island and the United States are left groping in the dark of attempted prohibition of the use of God's gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Wet & Wetter | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...practice of expropriating large estates and turning them over to the peasantry). In thunderous denunciation of President Portes Gil and Candidate Rubio last week, he shouted that as his chances of election grew their agents were plotting to spring a fake revolution in his name, which the Government would use as a pretext for calling off the election. Paradoxically he also threatened: "If the count goes against me and yet I consider myself to have been elected I will accept the will of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Morrows & Election | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Among the attractive features of this novel are the illustrations of the talented Zhenya Gay. She makes use of a style reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. It fits in with the type work harmoniously...

Author: By Albert G. Churchill, | Title: Tattered Madonna | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

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