Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...received his M.A. here in 1966, and then studied in the University of Berlin in 1912-13. He was assistant professor of Education from 1924 to 1932, and since then has held his present post of assistant professor in Physics. From 1932 through 1934 he also directed the University Summer School...
After the executions a thousand angry demonstrators carried black flags with skull and cross bones through Dublin's streets. They tried to storm the British Representative's office. At the Post Office, bloody scene of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, they stood silent for two minutes. Sports were canceled, cinemas closed. At Mountjoy Prison, where once Mr. de Valera himself was jailed and where in 1922 the British shot Rory O'Connor, railroad engineer and onetime I. R. A. staff member, a crowd burned the Union Jack...
...FORTUNE, painting murals for bars, hotels, Government buildings. His conservative employers run no risk of embarrassment. "To paint a mural that doesn't fit the place would be like painting swastikas in a synagogue," observes Artist Gropper. "If I were to paint a proletarian scene in a post office, Farley would jump out of his pants. My only interest, where I haven't got a free hand, is to do as good a job as possible...
...Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain's and Halifax's "failures" had embarrassed his committee colleagues.) Their Declaration drafted, they will pass it along to a group of international lawyers for checking, then try to sell it to the civilized world...
...result of a recent investigation into the defect of previous nominations and elections, entirely new methods are being employed this year. Post card ballots will replace the ballot boxes of previous years...