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...should like to be classed with them," replied Dr. Townsend blandly. "I hope to attain that place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Messiah on the March | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Then cried the first Jew ever slated to attain that office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bodards & Bogeys | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Landon has shrewdly avoided offering specific answers to national problems. His rare speeches to date have been to the effect that it would be nice to attain many New Deal goals without New Deal spending and experiment. "No reasonable citizen should ask us what to do," cried he in his second broadside at the New Deal last winter. "The American people propose to solve their problems under the American system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Biologist's Bug | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...suggestion that the two half courses be converted into a single full course of the omnibus variety is a very practical one. Undoubtedly a full course organized in this way would not attain the popularity of Psychology A. But at least a graduate of the elementary course would no longer come forth with his taste for psychology blunted through innocuous teaching, or with the conviction that he really knew something about the subject, merely because of the course's superficiality. The harm done either the concentrator or the non-concentrator in either case is as obvious as it is destructive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS LECTURE TEACHERS | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

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