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Word: yoke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating through the proposed fact-finding committees, forestalls to a great extent personal bias and prejudice. It provides a much fairer and more competent method of ascertaining the abilities of each candidate, both in research and teaching. By its very nature, it makes for strength to throw off the yoke of the Corporation. The reaction of the official faculty committee now investigating tenure to this document of educational democracy should be of the utmost interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRATIC MANIFESTO | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...efforts to oppose the Japanese. It is in the colleges that Chinese nationalism is chiefly fostered, and hence it is at the universities that the Japanese have directed their first attacks. Through the preservation of the universities alone does China stand a real chance to throw off the Japanese yoke and salvage her own culture and independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Discusses Crisis of Chinese Universities as Book Drive Starts | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...negative argued that far from suffering under the yoke of the fashion setters, the women actually enjoy it, since fashion was a way for women to express their independence of the world of men and work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Debaters Win From Vassar In Radio Debate | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...holding companies, gave him a net interest of 18.3% in North American. This is the sort of setup the Public Utility Holding Company ("death sentence") Act of 1935 was specifically designed to alter. Shrewd Harrison Williams was the first of the major utility tycoons to submit to its painful yoke, and North American registered with SEC in February 1937. By last fall when SEC finally forced the rest of the industry into line, Mr. Williams was all set to flatten his pyramid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two-story Pyramid | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...final Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank number, with the audience joining in and yelling its head off over: Schnitzelbanko, Monster Franco, Fascist Yoke, Spanish Folk, Serene Impunity, Chinese Unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: TAC | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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