Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the improvement, rather than upon the elimination of the lecture system, for only in this way can the student be given the detailed information upon which the tutor relies. Professor Eaton believes that a tutor is not intended to impart information, but to aid the student in giving verbal expression to his opinions upon the subject matter covered in courses, by which knowledge becomes an integral part of the student's mind, instead of a carefully catalogued list of facts...
...Yorker, humorous weekly published in Manhattan, which cataloged the conversation as "another illustration of our President's amazing verbal frugality but, at the same time, evidence that he will spare a few words to keep the records straight...
...last week, through Attorney Robert Moore of Michigan City, Ind., announced David Curtis Stephenson, who recently (TIME, July 18, 25) began throwing verbal and documentary bombs at various Indiana officials from his life-prisoner's cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Mr. Stephenson, irate at getting no help in his attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks...
...discord characterized the sessions at Geneva last week of the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
...Cabinet, mostly composed of quick-trigger army officers, assembled with Dictator-Premier Ibanez and despatched a verbal ultimatum to the President. President Figueroa had no option but to issue a proclamation as follows: "Serious personal motives compel me to absent myself from my constitutional duties for a period of two months. During this time the Minister of the Interior (Premier Ibanez) will rep)ace me in the Presidency with the title of Vice President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 66 of the Political Constitution of the State...