Word: swapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president, who feels...
Senator Reed, through his Secretary Huntley, sent a conciliatory message to the Press Gallery inviting correspondents to meet him for a discussion of "newspaper ethics ... to swap viewpoints." Fifty newsmen signed a retort that they would not confer with him, that they preferred to hear this "thoughts on newspaper ethics" from the Senate floor where he had referred to "the so-called ethics of a so-called profession...
...Assembly of the League of Nations at the University of Michigan will point the moral of international amity to a fascinated, if small audience. Inspired with enthusiasms as diverse as the points of the compass, aided by officials of State, it assembles with fitting ceremony to weigh opinions and swap stories. At first glance, the affair seems to be without the pale of ordinary collegiate interest. But at the present time, when colleges are admittedly the fountain from which all blessings flow, their taking the initiative in the unselfish service of moulding public opinion becomes a privilege and a duty...
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George Cretziano, suave Rumanian Minister to the U. S., was ordered to swap posts with peppery Carol Davila, Rumanian Minister to Poland. The order was part of a general reshuffle of Rumanian diplomats, drastically begun last week by the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu (TIME...