Word: useful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause of the Labor pangs in C. I. O.'s belly. Said they: "Since the enactment of the [Wagner] Act organized Labor has been inclined to rely far too heavily upon the law. . . . This convention commends to all C. I. O. affiliates a most sparing and considered use of the Wagner Act in the future...
Foremost U. S. rocketeer is Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, who, backed by Guggenheim funds, runs a rocket-experiment station in the New Mexico desert. In his early experiments taciturn Dr. Goddard used ordinary gunpowder for fuel, has since switched to liquid fuels, such as a mixture of oxygen and gasoline, or oxygen and hydrogen-tricky to handle but highly efficient. He has sent rockets up vertically to heights of a mile and a half. His chief interest in rockets: as a possible means of carrying scientific instruments up higher than stratosphere balloons can take them. But experimenters abroad, especially...
Troubled political conditions in the world have brought a host of foreign students to the Committee on the Use of English this year, according to Dudley H. Cloud, Secretary to the Committee...
...History I instructors point out that the notes are vulnerable "on purely intellectual grounds." The staff describes the use of notes as "mere memorization of material" which produces no original thought and seriously affects the grades of their users...
...worried by the fact that Harvard's grid schedule this year includes three snap games. "Two snaps ought to be enough in an average year," he says, "but what's the use of our going in for suicide schedules? If Harvard went in for hiring professionals, they wouldn't have to fool around with set-up opening games...