Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrip. President Roosevelt's proclamation pointed directly to the general use of scrip as a means of exchange. Secretary of the Treasury Woodin intimated that the Government would issue no national scrip but would leave each financial area to develop its own system under Federal supervision. Bankers worked night & day planning to issue this money substitute while presses whirled out millions of oblongs of paper which citizens would be asked to accept in lieu of cash...
Adams House is a unit, a scattered and individualistic mass, but a unit nevertheless. And it is the hope of those men at its head that some day it will develop into a spiritual unit as well. Realizing, however, that this development can only come with time, they are pursuing a policy of cooperative encouragement, not forceful imposition
Whether or not during the almost two years of its existence John Winthrop House has tended to develop a definite personality of its own, is a matter of personal opinion. Most significantly it has retrained from any supremacist attempts at atmosphere an influence of its popular Master. Because of the spirit it of democracy in the House and its balance of academic work, social life and athletics, it may be fairly said that John Winthrop House has made definite progress in fulfillment of the aims of the founders of the House Plan at Harvard.GORE AND STANDISH HALLS OF WINTHROP HOUSE...
Most apparent is the failure to indicate the part played by Professor Coolidge in his effort to develop the Lowell House "corporate personality." That effort is everywhere patent; there is the High Table and the sedulous recognition by note of scholastic success or failure; there are the visits to sick Housemembers at Stillman and the erratic little speeches about Lowell Traditions. The Master's paternalism has evoked much criticism from cynical outsiders and startled, new-fledged Sophomores. But older Housemembers have discovered that House Spirit remains nonetheless comfortably distant, have looked more closely to the source of the attentions...
Driving an automobile at 253 m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side...