Word: amassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are few men who consciously strive for some definite formulation of their ideas on these subjects of vital importance. The vast majority of students are engaged in the accumulation of facts and rarely are they concerned with the implications of these upon their personal life. Content to amass a rich store of factual data most students see in this process only a means of either pleasantly spanning the years of their youth or of acquiring a technical background for a career in the world. Why they want to engage in one occupation rather than another, what values in life...
...takeoff of the Explorer, second stratoflight in the U. S., seventh since Professor Auguste Piccard's in 1931.* Backed by the Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society, the stratonauts planned not only to break the world's official altitude record (61,237 ft.) but to amass scientific data. Cost of the expedition was reported to be $1,000,000. In Moonlight Valley, a large natural amphitheatre in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Explorer's crew had waited weeks for favorable weather. To inflate the envelope with 210,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen...
...tutors, far from endeavoring to teach or coach students in a small class, are striving to give students a complete mastery of a special field of learning and an opportunity for intellectual expansion and creativeness. Understanding must be the criterion for future higher education and not ability to amass unrelated facts without any continuity of purpose...
Students are attending college for an education and not merely to amass facts that eminent research men can unearth in the dusty stacks of Widener. There is a place in Harvard for both the research man and the teacher. No college which pretends to aspire to being an educational institution can exist without both...
When the U. S. entered the War, Peek was abroad helping the French Government amass military materials, a job for which his 23 years with Deere & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, prepared him. Alexander Legge of International Harvester called his competitor home to sit on the War Industries Board. Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director of the Council of National Defense and the Board's biographer, has described Peek as "impetuous, impatient, impulsive, explosive, restless, driving ... a photographic observer. . . . For Peek the world was a sharp black-&-white drawing. His decisions were as clear-cut as Legge's, but they...