Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes on to include the old ruling, which read simply that "no student shall discharge firearms within University precincts at any time...
...tore up the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, Feb. 8). Last week Il Duce set the Italian press to clamoring that Britain and France have now denied "equality" to Italy, demanding that the Italian navy be given an equal share in any patrol of the Mediterranean. As these editorials were read beyond the Rhine, German editors began to grind out reams of comment extremely favorable to Italy and in terms of her right to "equality" and "honor." This was the kind of talk which most easily fires Nazis and they fairly ate it up. Soon even the London Times, frequently...
...compiling the material for Outposts of Science, Jaffe was Gray's predecessor in the technique of laboratory contact and checking at the source. He first read bales of information in fields outside his own specialty, then spent four years visiting some 50 workshops and talking to scientists. Once at Mt. Wilson Observatory he found a Hollywood actress among a group of visitors looking through a telescope at star clusters, saw her turn away from the eyepiece, heard her snort, "aw, nerts." Not for Hollywood actresses, but for the intelligent public, he undertook in Outposts of Science to cover genetics...
Other visiting scholars in the social sciences will include Professor Charles Bunn, of the University of Wisconsin Law School, who will lecture at the Law School; Dr. Read Bain, Professor of Sociology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, who will lecture on Social Conflict, Social Control, and Personality; and Professor Delbert J. Duncan, of the Northwestern University School of Commerce, who will lecture at the Business School on Marketing...
...author's style is terse, to the point, easy to read. There are no wasted words. This is a dignified chronicle of a dignified event. Even the Harvard-phobia who starts at the first page will not lay down the book until the end is reached. A sense of the magnitude of what is being recorded grasps the reader comparable to that which grasped the watchers last year. Mr. Greene makes those days live again...