Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly perfect minor invention, and one in almost universal use today, is the Yale lock. This lock appears to have been used by the natives of eastern Africa long before it was known to civilization. The Makonde and Ambo tribes fasten the doors of their houses with these locks. They are large, and clumsily made of wood. The tumblers are about an inch in diameter, and when the door is unlocked, are raised to the proper height by means of a clumsy key with corresponding projections...
...stop in front of the embittered conflicts of national interest which defeated Mr. Wilson in Paris and with which the statesmanship of the present administration is not prepared to deal. The Conference will have small chance of success unless the American delegation can manage not only to fasten the attention of the gathering on the Pacific and on naval disarmament but also somehow to have the problems of the Pacific disinterestedly considered on their own merits...
...stop in front of the embittered conflicts of national interest which defeated Mr. Wilson in Paris and with which the statesmanship of the present administration is not prepared to deal. The Conference will have small chance of success unless the American delegation can manage not only to fasten the attention of the gathering on the Pacific and on naval disarmament but also somehow to have the problems of the Pacific disinterestedly considered on their own merits...
...only what has been imparted in the several courses, but the subject as a whole. Out side reading will form an important part of the student's preparation, and one of the prime requisites will be an ability to digest knowledge and present it effectively. "The aim is to fasten attention on the subject as a whole, rather than on isolated fragments of it; to lead the student to co-ordinate the information he obtains." The scientific method will doubtless still be observed; special reports and theses will still form a part of undergraduate training. But a breadth in grasp...