Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under Miscellany of TIME, May 6, was an item headed "Scared" telling of a boy, age five, frightened by a dog and within six hrs. losing his hair. I gave this topic in Current Events and my teacher called me down before the whole class. I received no grade for the topic for she said it did not happen and was not possible. I told her it came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter...
...first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration's whole farm program. Ohio's Senator Fess attacked the party loyalty cf Idaho's Senator Borah. Senator Borah struck back, accused Senator Fess of being the President's political slave (see p. 10). Disturbed, the President summoned Senator & Mrs. Borah to the White House for Sunday luncheon. Senator Fess...
...necessary to give a higher "compensatory" rate to manufacturers using the raw material in their production to keep the proper balance of protection. The rate on high-grade raw wool was jacked up from 31¢ per Ib. to 34¢ with corresponding increases on finished woollen articles running through the whole schedule. These increases to manufacturers made the farmer rage, since they tended to continue the existing tariff disparity between Husbandry and Industry...
...such as the tutorial system and the plan of concentration and distribution has been matched by a vast increase in number of students and size of the University endowment. The brilliant and far-reaching conceptions of his predecessors have been shaped and welded by President Lowell into a working whole which maintains Harvard in its honored position at the forefront of American education. While the nation has been becoming a world power the University has become a national institution...
...whole idea of having the Freshmen together for one year is to give them a chance to get acquainted with one another, and to give them that class consciousness which, if not important during their college days, is very necessary afterwards. The first year is the best year for a class to be together since, by the Senior year other acquaintanceships have been made, some have dropped a class while still others have had their names completely erased from the college records...