Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also interesting in the work planned on the reactions to radio propaganda, which aims to use varied methods of approach on the same audience and by comparing results determine which is the most effective...
...vital part of the original program, and it must be abandoned with regret. But the transcendent importance of the other two features makes this course an economical one. Wisdom to judge the present comes mainly from knowledge of the past; which is to say that Americans can use their institutions more intelligently if they realize how these originated and developed. On the other hand, learning, which has tended in recent eras to fall into tiny, unrelated pieces, has meaning only when it is a related whole. Thus an American Civilization Plan which still teaches history in its broadest form...
...Gaylord Dillingham '40, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, generously gave the Lions permission to use the title, adding that "we'd also be glad to help them patch up their plot, which seems pretty weak." Both musicals deal with the forthcoming New York World's Fair...
...quizzes to general tests. Thus the government will follow the brilliant example of the English system in requiring of candidates some evidence of broad intellectual attainment instead of technical knowledge. While this method of examination may be an effective bar against the entrance of mediocrities in the service, its use in England proves that it can be undemocratic in excluding the less educated classes. However, the easier accessibility to a college education in this country than in England should help preclude such a possibility...
...poets in Ireland, he published his first poems shortly after in the Irish Statesman, made a pilgrimage to Dublin. Tramping back to Mucker pronouncing the Irish gods and heroes dead, the fairies driven underground, Poet Kavanagh concluded: "Writers leave Ireland because sentimental praise, or hysterical pietarian dispraise, is no use in the mouth of a hungry...