Word: type
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...answer to questions designed to mould preferences for one or the other type of job, here, for once, opinion was definitely on one side in that a sizeable majority of both previous T. S. E. workers and student waiters would prefer the former type of employment if both were available...
...emotional stresses, once aroused in this fashion, tend to create a social compulsion not unlike state edict in its effect, while a brief look-see at the "God Bless America" excesses should convince anyone of the impossibility of maintaining this type of emotional patriotism within non-ridiculous bounds. (At one show currently on Broadway a magician pulls 20 Starred-and-Striped chorus girls out of a hat; they're honeys, but would Professor Elliott approve...
...optical parts of the telescope have just been completed. They consist of a 33-inch spherical mirror, and correcting plate of 24 inches diameter. This important type of telescope was invented about ten years ago by Bernard Schmidt, of Hamburg, Germany, and to date the Jewett telescope is the largest to be put into operation. Construction of larger telescopes of this type was recently started for the Boyden Station of Harvard Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, and at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology...
Labelling himself a "Freshman on the Harvard faculty," John H. Finley '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin and chairman of the Classics Department, directed his "fellow-freshmen" toward the well-rounded life. Praising the type of mind which is capable of varied interests, Finley cited Jefferson and Morse as outstanding examples. He advanced the thesis that whatever one's field of concentration, the essential goal is the acquiring of an ability to reason from facts and to think...
Managing the intramural teams rests upon a volunteer basis. Samborski said that the success of the program depends upon the type of managers he can find...