Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days when hectic journalists, technocrats, and parlor pinks jostle each other on the harping ground of economic planning, there is a natural desire among college undergraduates that there be some course presented to equip them with blueprints of future possibilities in their relation to past experience. Such a course Harvard's Economic department presents as Economics 7c, subtitled "Problems of Social Reconstruction," which is given during the first half-year, and is open to men who have taken Economics...
There remains no baritone of potentially historic acclaim save Tibbett who, essentially practical and intelligent about his career, wastes no time worrying about his temperament but proceeds methodically, laboriously to equip himself for great things. He knows that sooner or later he will inherit some of Scotti's roles. He has already sung Scarpia in road performances of Tosca. He would like to sing Falstaff. the role Scotti was singing that night eight years ago when the audience suddenly started shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" stopping the show for 20 minutes because it liked the young American who sang the part...
...what had been agreed, the General was not specific. Close listeners to his program speech detected a lack of program. Jokingly he said that he was "perfectly willing to equip our army with knives and paper shields, provided only our neighbors do the same." Seriously he promised no further tax-upping, no further Federal wage-cutting, greater freedom of the press and other pleasant things. "Joyous co-operation on the part of all classes," he declared, would enable him to keep these promises and he warned the Communists not to misbehave...
...that the Anglican clergy first took up blessing the hounds because foxes were a menace to the countryside. "The fox is not a pest any longer," said Mr. Harper. "If a fox should cause a modern farmer trouble, the farmer would not assemble his friends and his neighbors, equip them with horns and red coats and ask them to ride to hounds in quest of the offending animal...
When Dr. Langmuir was young he was "that inquisitive boy," a nuisance to his aunts. 'He probably proceeded into chemistry instead of some other science because his older brother, who was studying chemistry, answered questions, helped him equip a child's chemistry laboratory. That older brother is now Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir, shellac & glycerine expert, donor of the $1,000 Langmuir prize for precocity in chemistry...