Word: altering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewdness was unnecessary. He continued, in all his business relations, a policy of lofty deference. Money could not alter his fibre; it merely offered him an opportunity to show his principles. He gave enormously to schools, churches, hospitals. When Vanderbilt University renounced Methodism to get a million dollars from Andrew Carnegie, he gave $2,000,000 to start the University of Atlanta. "The work of higher education," he said, "is not going to be surrendered to secularism. . . . To that Church at whose altars I receive the Christian gospel and sacraments, upon which surely I depend, I may safely entrust...
...homeliest substances would lie ready to perform potent miracles. It would be something for nothing with a vengeance. In his presidential address, Dr. James F. Norris of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Society's chief, dwelt upon this subject most optimistically. The initial energy required to alter atomic arrangements and in so doing release new energy of high intensity has been found in the X-ray tube. Synthetic fuels and lighting gases might be but one result, on a modest scale. Sugar from formaldehyde is already another. The economic implications of the power to transmute base metals would...
...university." Europe, in which he spent two of the early and one of the later '60s as a young mathematics and chemistry researcher, conceived the U. S. as an intellectual wilderness with but one stockaded stronghold of pioneer culture, Boston, and a single blockhouse, Harvard. Resolved to alter the basis for this conception, Dr. Eliot declined the treasurership of a big spinning company, taught at Boston Tech and wrote to the magazines attacking U. S. educational methods. He advanced the notion that their curse was uniformity. His pointed strictures drew the attention of the Harvard Corporation which...
...temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...
...ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working day of their employees by one hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore. II. Italian newspapers are forbidden to print editions larger than...