Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to a widespread belief, there is no University rule which prohibits the return of examination blue books in any course, either at mid-years or at finals, it was learned from the Dean's office yesterday. It was clear that in the note of "Instructions to Instructors" issued by the office, that there was no provision regarding return of the books...
...larger aspects the step is definitely retrogressive. Tutoring schools grow fat on the widespread feeling in the college that courses are badly managed and the teachers indifferent to the difficulties of the student. By saying that University Hall wanted to and could take care of its own, the Union reviews hit right back at Massachusetts Avenue and if for no other reason than that they directed attention to internal reform of the administration they should have been continued. Proposing to take a poll on the subject before the final exams, the Committee indicates that the door is not shut, that...
...better, got up. There was probably no one in the nation who, if he escaped these symptoms, did not know someone who had not. Nevertheless, due to its short duration and apparent lack of killing power, health officials in all principal U. S. cities unanimously hesitated to dignify the widespread respiratory malady by describing it as an influenza epidemic...
...more widespread use of epidemiologic investigations in the control of syphilis...
...five other employes of an emergency hospital were suspended for tipping off attorneys about accidents. In New York City, after insurance companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle. New York now has the fake automobile accident racket so well in hand that last...