Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This last generality, fond and frequent bon mot at parting of many parents; has often served to bring home their son earlier than they ever dreamed, Recognition of one truth is looking more and more at Harvard: that no single outside activity, athletics included, will so surely build a good citizen as conscientious application to college study. In the days when this idea bore the brand of propaganda it was quite properly abhorred, but recently it has achieved a renascence that seems unthreatened by even the ignorance of the familiar playboy. Mr. Slocum is carried on the wings of Pegasus...
...Engineering in 1921 had made the suggestion which led Secretary of the Navy Denby to have President Harding transfer Teapot Dome to the Interior Department. It was his idea and Secretary Denby's he said, to have Fall lease the oil reserve to some company which would build tanks, and store oil for the Navy. Also, there would be royalties. Secrecy was urged because in 1921, the Navy Department had a "scare" about war with Japan...
...chemists, physical chemists, industrial chemists, engineering chemists; chemists who worked with spectroscope and vacuum tube to find out the structure of the atom, chemists who spent their days with rabbit and guinea pig to ferret out the secrets of growth, chemists who messed about with saps and sawdust to build up substitutes for rubber, sugar, silk. More than 300 scientific papers were read. More than a fifth of these were on the program of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, the longest program of any of the 16 divisions. This division united with the Organic Division to give...
This gulf of opinion between the secondary school and the college still stretches, deep and dangerous, across the flat of America's democratic education. Charges from the one side or the other are vain material to build a bridge across; experiment and experience are the two cables that must finally span...
...least six good reasons exist for private capital to build toll bridges: 1) motor travelers are willing to pay tolls to shorten their journeys; 2) local authorities derive a certain, if trifling, indirect income; 3) government authorities are often too lethargic to construct needed bridges; 4) engineering friends of private capitalists, rather than the engineering friends of officeholders get the construction jobs and profits; 5) sale of bridge bonds and stocks provides work and profits for banking houses; 6) bridge bonds and stocks are investment opportunities for people with idle money...