Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find ourselves driven to admit that knowledge is growing more rapidly than educators an fetter it, may it not be necessary for us to strive to develop educational methods in the undergraduate's years that will deal more directly with the mental processes of the student than do many of our present methods of teaching, and examination that lay so much emphasis on subject matter? May it not be that the only way in which the modern man can hope to keep pace with the modern world is to increase the tempo of his, mind as the tempo...
...Wilderness Woman (Aileen Pringle-Lowell Sherman). Perhaps there is no greater wilderness in the world than Manhattan. Man's stone reforestation has not driven out the danger and the loneliness. In this comparison of a wilderness of trees and a wilderness of streets, there might be a deep and stirring picture. The present producers have chosen to make it a cheap composition of many usual things, stringing them together in a generally unamusing necklace. An unschooled Alaskan girl invades Manhattan, cleans out the Biltmore Hotel tea room with her pet bear, learns to dress beautifully, to live dangerously. Matters...
...certain that such a mind has not been marking time within the precincts of a dusty pedagogy during 27 years. It has a large side interest in botany, for which it has a second international reputation. And upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata. It has pondered the ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source...
...cows could fly, Chicagoans would rejoice. Bovines could then be driven from the plains of Texas to the vast abattoirs of the Windy City in coveys, flocks, flights. If airplanes ever get big enough, even this may come to pass. . For the present, Chicagoans and Texans alike are content to rejoice that their lette. 3 back and forth about cows, and about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago...
...pioneer cruise with a cargo of stone from Hamburg to Manhattan via the Canary Islands. She had used but 30% of the fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told also of motor-driven water-pumps, lighting plants and even airships of the future...