Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed to appropriate $250,000,000 for direct unemployment relief whereas Senator Wagner of New York called for a two billion dollar bond issue for public works. Senator Kean of New Jersey would turn Muscle Shoals over to Alabama and Tennessee. A bill by Senator Dill of Washington would equip the Senate chamber for radio broadcasting...
...youth, with their strength and comparative freedom, the situation is a challenge to their understanding, their sacrifice and their elate effort to equip themselves for a higher intellectual level of existence, whatever the economic conditions. Dean Gauss in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, speaking of the great majority of college students, says that they are "cheerful and happy," and that, "unlike their elders, they do not everlastingly talk about the depression." They hope that "things will go back"; but whatever happens, they are not going back to the senseless way in which many of them lived in prosperous days. It cannot...
...control for ships, the first ever put into actual use. Directed by his devices, the battleship Iowa was used as a target during naval maneuvers off Panama in 1923. Recently the destroyer Stoddert was converted into a radio-controlled target, maneuvered off San Diego. The Navy intends similarly to equip the destroyers Kitty and Boggs...
...address before the Yale chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Professor Ulrichs made the statement that the University should equip its graduates with "the professional touch." With the increasing tendency toward specialization it is inevitable that more and more emphasis must be put on professional training, but whether it is the college's job to provide this training is a matter of doubt. The graduate schools are in a position to put their work on a professional standard, but undergraduates should not necessarily be expected to carry their studies to this point...
...manner in which foreign criticism is received in the land of the Soviets offers a pleasing contrast to the conduct of must nations under similar circumstances. Following the attacks of Representative Fish and Matthew Woll on Red institutions, the Moscow Pravda has recently made the facetious suggestion that America equip a Columbus expedition with caravels in order to find out the truth about the Soviet...