Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretive as usual, the Agent General would say nothing. No official communiqués were issued. But leading correspondents convinced themselves with significant unanimity that the developments of last week were preparatory, preliminary. The world's foremost fiscal tycoons were understood to have debated principally questions of the organization and procedure to be followed by the new International Financial Commission, which will reopen the Reparations Question. A leading point at issue between the tycoons was ascertained to be whether the experts attached to the Commission shall be private financiers or governmental treasury experts. Agent Gilbert was understood to have...
...ills of the college few obtained as general support as the "scholastic aptitude" tests which were made part of the admission requirements in many universities. At one of these, Amherst, investigations were made to determine whether they really fulfilled their function of predicting scholastic ability any better than the usual entrance examinations, and after a six year period the results are decidedly negative. Comparison of the test results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than a fifty per cent correspondence. The endeavor to diagnose by psychology what...
...Tariff Commission is at present composed of six members, of which not more than three may be of the same political party. They receive $9,000 each per annum. The present, and usual, constituency is three Republicans, three Democrats and it is usually deadlocked on party lines when reports are required...
...usual, Signor Mussolini managed in his discourse to turn several familiar ideas inside out, disemboweling them with hearty, ogrish gust...
...sale of this program in conjunction with a Boston evening newspaper may or may not be a clue to the identity of its editors, who, like their printers, have not seen fit to acknowledge responsibility in the usual manner. There is something delightful about the underselling of an official program; when, however, the program is useless for its purpose in the mind of the purchaser, it becomes misrepresented merchandise. As such it is punishable under law, whose enforcement, as a preventative measure, the CRIMSON suggests to the city of Cambridge...