Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Corporation will meet today for the first time since the illness of President Conant, who has just returned from convalescing in Florida...
Clark, a one-man aquarium today tipped the scales at 158 before he started last night, and he scaled off afterwards at 165 as excited friends cheered this newest champion to the echo. He masticated the fish one by one and took less than ten minutes to do the entire job, pausing only momentarily between poissons to suck at oranges...
...that modern life is a very complex affair is even more true than it is platitudinous. This complexity has confounded governments when they have attempted to regulate human relations. It has also confounded scholars and professors. So vast is the mass of knowledge today that no one dares to face the whole of it; and the result is that scholars have taken refuge in specialization. More and more have they drawn into their tight little corners of specific knowledge, completely curtained off from the rest of the room...
...epochal report on education released today wishes to controvert this tendency. There have been previous attempts in its direction, including Harvard's roving professorships, Chicago's divisional organization, and Yale's Institute of Human Relations. But these often amounted to administrative palliatives; and the suggested concentration in areas at Harvard is one of the most coherent steps yet taken to cut across departmental lines...
WASHINGTON--Grave fears over the trend of Central European events brought the Administration's giant rearmament program in step nearer completion today when the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $512,-188,882 War Department bill for the year beginning July 1, with funds for Army Air Corps expansion...