Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Educationally Harvard is operating at present under a system of distribution and concentration. In the Freshman year we have distribution "trying to know a little about many things" perhaps an occasional movie on Friday evening included. Upon this platform is built the concentration "trying to know a little more about some one thing." Upon the platform of the Freshman dormitories the University is building these Houses, to deepen, richen and concentrate those many acquaintances and experiences with which a Freshman first comes in contact when he enters college...
Promises. Political observers re-examined the platform of the Labor party to see what might be expected if and when another MacDonald government runs Britain. The Labor party had advocated...
...speech finished, Prime Minister Baldwin grinned ingratiatingly, winced again and descended from the platform. Listening to the speech with eyes closed, a sour expression on her face, was long-nosed Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Her moment came when the men were through speaking. The women of the audience crowded around her for a look, a possible smile, as they always do. She, as she always does, loved it, lingered long...
Fortnight ago ex-King Amanullah grunted and sweated on a Kandahar platform doing a cloak & box trick to show his people that he was worthy to be their King (TIME, May 27). News from India last week indicated how vain were Amanullah's grunts. Frightened by reports of what Bacha Sakao, the usurping bandit-King, was doing to rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife...
...Leviathan on its next westward crossing of the Atlantic will experiment with an analogous device to pick up and despatch mail to shore. On a new platform above the poop deck a sack of mail will be laid. A plane with a steel ball hanging by a rope will pass over the ship, dragging the ball across the platform. The ball will engage the sack, which the plane will draw into its fuselage, as she flies to land...