Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualified by one or two suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should not the department confine itself to the valuable, enduring and practical? And if this is true, should it nor be called PROGRESS...
Since channel swimming become a practically unknown sport, after it was learned that all one needed was a heavy blanket of fog and a strong oarsman, the spotlight of publicity for not doing things has shifted to aviation. "Our Ruth", as we never call her, proved that all one needed was to come down beside a big merchantman, be picked up in the orthodox way, taken to port, and live thereafter in a Paradise of dotted lines...
...Hampshire was less badly off. Governor Huntley M. Spaulding made no call for help. Massachusetts, which had expected the worst as the flood crests approached last fortnight, escaped major damage. Connecticut, too, had time to prepare...
...Joseph Henry, first a teacher in a boys' school, then professor of physics at Princeton, constructed the first real electromagnet, the first telegraph and printing telegraph, had a wireless set with which his family used to call him from the laboratory to his meals, and most important of all, discovered, jointly with Faraday, the laws of electromagnetic induction which underlie all electric power machinery. And when urged by his friends to press his claims for patent rights he answered that his scientific work was too important to be hampered by attending to such trivial matters...
Again silent Banker Stillman speaks. In England, he learned that Mr. Morgan was living alone. So he paid a call one hot June morning. "Morgan asked, 'What brought you here to see me, Stillman?' I answered, 'Oh, I thought you might be lonely.' Whereat Morgan jumped up from the table and ran around and kissed me on the cheek...