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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discipline of another, subtler kind. When Germany's bristling Herr Schacht came to get his ear privately after a day's sessions he had to convince himself and Herr Schacht that he was treating him exactly as though French Delegate Moreau were present. When M. Moreau came, similar convictions were necessary. In his preservation of the confidence of all the parties, in his resuscitation of their confidence in each other, lay Chairman Young's greatest right to have his name applied to the Reparations plan which was finally adopted. From the Orient, where such things are most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Man-of-the-Year | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...Harian T. Stetson, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohto Wesleyan University, for which the mirror is being cast at the Bureau of Standards, discussed land-tides similar in origin to the tides of the ocean. That the earth's crust actually shifts as a result of the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth is the theory advanced by Dr. Stetson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Advances a New Theory of Time, Distance | 1/4/1930 | See Source »

...personally wished to be excused from a 10 o'clock economics class in order to attend a lecture on medieval philosophy by Professor Gilson at that hour. In the dean's office I was told that since he had already refused to excuse three fellows on similar grounds, and that the office had not done it before, I could not possibly be given an excuse. I was advised to cut my economics class." Communication, Daily Illini...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1930 | See Source »

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