Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the idea that the best education is an individual development continuing through life, President Conant reported that he wanted the history plan to counteract the widespread attitude that "the only road to knowledge lies through formal instruction administered by a college...
...giving two year concluding appointments, University officials last week dismissed Alan R. Sweezy and J. Raymond Walsh, instructors in Economics. In answer to widespread question that the discharges might have been based on the outstanding liberal activities of the two men, a statement was issued explaining that the move had been made "solely on the grounds of teaching capacity and scholarly ability...
...Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came stones c widespread trouble among General Franco's men: In Spanish Morocco 30 officers of the Tetuan aircraft post were shot for conspiracy; at Malaga 20 Italian carabineers were lined up against a wall and at Algeciras a batch of non-commissioned Italians in the Pavia Regiment were mowed down for plotting General...
...friends of learning rejoiced in the widespread interest aroused by this Conference of Arts and Sciences. Here was conclusive evidence, if any were needed, that this country prizes the triumphs of the mind for their own sake, as well as for their utility...
...American College of Surgeons, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association all bind their members not to split fees. Nevertheless, the practice of dichotomy-by which one physician refers a patient to another for a price-is almost as widespread in the U. S. as it is in France, where it has been regulated. So flagrant has the practice become in New York City, where medical competition is keen and many a physician has to scratch gravel to survive, that last week the president of the Association of Private Hospitals Inc. called in the press to expostulate...