Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization have been made and, naturally, will be made, which are of real value. But those made in regard to the board charge seem to be based on a misunderstanding. One of the primary advantages of the House Plan is that it can put a stop to continual "eating around", or rather that it affords an opportunity for congenial groups of men to have their meals, at board rates, in agreeable surroundings in the buildings in which they live. Perhaps it is not simply a contrary reaction which inspires the frantic defense of eating where one chooses and brings forth...
...steam engine was a new invention is compared with the achievements of modern industry by the general use of electricity. Comparison is made between our water power resources and our coal deposits, and it shows that there is enough coal used yearly to build a Chinese Wall entirely around the United States. Animated drawings demonstrate the operation of a steam turbine and the generation of alternating current. The story ends with the construction of a modern electric power plant and a glance into the future of the electric power industry...
...book on the Financial Policy of Corporations which is so formidable that it may scare off the average undergraduate who does not know that Professor Dewing's lecture delivery is one of the least puzzling in the College. Most undergraduates on the first day of the course look wildly around for the nearest exit, convinced that they have wandered into a philosophy lecture. Bailing his trap with a summary of the corporation from Rome to the present day. Professor Dewing has the class following him, at a distance of several sea leagues, by the third lecture. Then he hops briskly...
This course on the various programs for social reconstruction limits itself to fairly modern times. No undergraduate alive, whether he was born a little Lib-e-ral or a little Conserve-a-tive, can afford to be ignorant of the social ferment which goes on in the world around him, and theatens to involve him as employer or employee, taxlevyer or taxpayer in our time. This course will not introduce him to the manifestations of these doctrines now current in Harbin or in Gastonia, but it will enable him to learn something of the ideas held by anarchists, social...
...three of the hours when the polling places were open, have no great amount of time free during the period. If one of the courses meets at a distant point such as Mallinckrodt, there is but a minute or two which could be spared for voting. Yet the crowd around the tables in Sever and Harvard Halls was so thick that no one without plenty of time on his hands could attack it, with any hope of both voting and attending his class. It would not have been hard to have more watchers during the few brief periods when voting...