Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward. If reliable, the Jenkins invention promised to be even more effective than the wheel brakes already...
...conclusion let me sound an optimistic note. My contact with the coming generation makes me proud of them. They are in love with life. They are keenly interested in their fellow beings. They seek causes rather than fundamentals. They freely discuss sex morality. They try experiments, often to the horror of their parents-but here is the chief point, 'they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code...
...perfectly evident that Mr. Stanley Bloodgood (TIME, June 6) is single, and does not come in contact with many of the intelligent women of America. However I believe his case hopeless, if you know what I mean...
Partaking as it does of the nature of a special tutorial system, such a plan would have many of the peculiar tutorial advantages. Personal contact, appreciation of individual difficulties, all the special attention which a tutor or a supervisor can give and which a large course of necessity fails to supply, are perhaps more needed in the teaching of English than anywhere else. The practical difficulties of the suggestion, inadequacy of instructors and scarcity of student time, could be met by having the instructor meet his charges at considerable intervals, watching their development rather than furnishing them with constant precepts...
...success of the "baby dean" system, inaugurated by Dean Greenough several years ago rests largely on the degree of personal contact established between the dean and the members of his class. True, the juvenile administrative officer must be dignified if possible and even scholarly after a fashion, but above all he must possess the qualifications which will enable him to look at scholastic pitfalls through the eyes of the undergraduate whom he serves. Under ordinary-circumstances this ideal can only be served by constant renewal and change in the personnel of University 4. Thus, it is with mixed feelings...