Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear, and that is that we shall find no really conclusive answer to the educational dilemma growing out of the enormity and complexity of modern knowledge if we attempt to determine the future evolution of higher education mainly in terms of curriculum construction. Any such approach will inevitably drive us to a choice between superficial general knowledge and accurate specialized knowledge. We must look for the really creative development of education in the methods of teaching rather than in the materials of teaching...
...proving grounds would penetrate the armor of the Merrimac as it had been reproduced from the specifications furnished by spies. It was the regret of John Ericsson's life that the Merrimac was not sunk by the Monitor in the first encounter. The powder charge required to drive the shell through the armor had been cut in two by order of the War Department, it being deemed unsafe to the gunners. In the second encounter, after the Monitor had narrowly escaped being rammed, the crew in desperation used a full charge, which drove the projectile into the vitals...
...committee which, with headquarters in Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, has sent its representatives and its publicity up and down the country - the most intense activity being in Greater New York. "There is one hope for the Jews in Eastern Europe," great posters state; "that hope is in the drive for fifteen million dollars. . . ." Speakers have outlined the purposes, the causes of the campaign...
...whole drive should be organized, both committees appointed and complete arrangements made, in the spring of each year. The actual collection will come in the early fall and will be greatly facilitated if the major part of the work of organization has already been completed...
...first drive for funds will be conducted by the Budget Committee...