Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pondered a proposal to equip all Senators with lapel microphones to broadcast Senate sessions...
...necessary to bring the fleet to its maximum strength. It appropriated no money; it detailed no building program; it set no time limits. If enacted, however, it would permit an expenditure of close to $1,000,000,000 to complete all vessels now building, modernize all capital ships, equip all carriers with aircraft, replace all overage craft and add enough new tonnage to make the U. S. fleet second to none. Its prime purpose was to establish in U. S. law a naval building policy which President Hoover, for reasons of economy, has been reluctant to pursue. Senator Hale made...
...contemplation of present problems in their relation to the aspects of an older civilization. Men cannot through study erect a formula for the satisfactory life any more than he can add a cubit's length to his height by taking thought. Education, if it is to mean anything, must equip the student with a foundation upon which he can build the edifice of his life. This can only be accomplished by a sound, careful study of a few facts, an analysis of certain principles. It cannot be gained by a journey, which must perforce be cursory, through the byways...
...just returned from two years residence in Europe, mostly in Germany and France, has had many editorial connections, including an editorship of Collier's for nearly 10 years and of Harper's weekly for three years. His editorial experience and his subsequent keen interest in American politics equip him to speak with authority and penetration on this topic...
During the present depression hordes of good students have applied for high-school positions. If school boards were capable of selecting wisely, they might equip their institutions with young men who, though suffering from the defects of American university methods have the ability to raise the intellectual level of secondary teaching. But, unfortunately, pull or a "smooth line" are likely to determine the selection of applicants in many places, and the majority of male teachers will continue for a while to be lazy, dull, and conservative...