Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There were many serious questions then as to whether or not the company could continue its shipbuilding activities. Accordingly, Mr. Shearer was commissioned by New York Shipbuilding Co. and others to act as an observer only at the Geneva Conference...
...growth of the school was some-what slower than President Eliot had expected, but he was satisfied with its progress, and President Lowell, who from the beginning had been deeply interested, declared an end to the period of experiment by his act in establishing it as an independent faculty, with an organization like that of the other professional schools of the university. But the steady increase in numbers of students brought new and pressing problems, which, when Dean Donham took over the leadership, had become formidable. The growth of the institution demanded urgently a great expansion in physical and personnel...
...this arduous but joyful experimentation, no one of us. I think, had any idea that what we were doing was only an ephemeral experiment. The act of faith in founding the school was being transformed into permanence. We knew that in reality the business world had summoned the school into being, and as we worked we were conscious of an increasingly favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without...
What had happened evidently was that in Denver some person or persons unknown, having knowledge of the confidential code through which bankers transfer money, had written six coded wires, had fraudulently added the six Denver signatures. Banks customarily act upon these coded telegrams without checking back on them. Given a knowledge of the code and a willingness to misuse it, there was no great difficulty in working the $500,000 fraud. Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered...
...light flitted about Columbia's Teachers' College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...