Word: expounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first "Choosing-a-Career Conference" has as its stated purpose, the office of providing students, and more especially, recent graduates, the chance to hear leaders in every field expound on the qualifications necessary for their jobs. After the speeches, men who are interested may have a chat with the speakers...
While by knowledge and actual practice he is well qualified to expound ultra-modern harmony, Professor Piston confines most of his discussion to what he calls "the common practice" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "The technical study of the diversified and apparently unrelated idioms of the twentieth century composers is most logically approached through a clear conception of what harmonic practice has been throughout the preceding two hundred years." The student is led to a more enlightened attitude toward the "rules" by such wise statements as the following: "the so-called rules of harmony represent what is done...
...educational world as being not only an able scholar, but a sensible and efficient administrator. This life of Harvard's Twentieth President, Mr. Land has designed "to be merely an introduction of Dr. Hill to the world he left forty-two years ago." Few today are left who could expound the educational and mathematical theories of this man who, at the age of forty-four, was called to head Harvard in a times when changing educational trends played as important a part as they do today. And therefore this book is more of an introduction than an interpretation...
...same thing which has aroused public interest in economics was the chief topic of interest to the economists: money. One afternoon 3,000 pundits crowded the walls of the ballroom of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel to hear Professor Warren expound his theory of the relationship of the gold supply to price levels, that the cause of the Depression was that prices outran the supply of gold in the late boom. It was his first public pronouncement since he became adviser to the President. When he had done, the 3,000 listened just as eagerly to Professor Kemmerer who has taken...
...potent development of this idea. He replaced the classical equations for electron motion with new differential equations similar to those which describe the wave motion which constitutes light and sound. Thus the atom is conceived as a positive nucleus wrapped in a throbbing field of negative electricity. To expound these ticklish ideas to U. S. scientists slim, smallish, pleasant-spoken Dr. Schrodinger journeyed to the U. S. few years ago, lectured at Caltech and other universities in excellent English. Born and educated in Vienna, he was professor of theoretical physics at Stuttgart and Zurich before joining the faculty...