Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeronautics." . . . Were your correspondents as adept at gathering facts as they seem to be at ferreting out middle names, the following might easily have been unearthed: i) That Cleveland is justly proud of Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, and would rather have as its representative in the aircraft manu facturing field one such strong, well-financed, well-managed concern than a score of the so- "called "manufacturers" which, mushroom-like, fill barns and hangars in other cities, build tiny "factories" on overenthusiastic local capital. 2) That the "abandoned" Glenn L. Martin plant was at the time it was taken over...
...miles away from Washington's heat and humidity to his Rapidan camp for one more weekend. Guests at the camp included Secretary of Commerce Lamont, F. K. Heath, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Mrs. Jean Large, sister of Mrs. Hoover, and her two children; Charles Kellogg Field, college classmate of the President; James Putnam Goodrich, one-time (1917-21) Governor of Indiana; and, most noteworthy of all, William Joseph Donovan, ardent Hooverite in last year's campaign for whom the President did not find a cabinet position and who refused the governorship of the Philippines. Apparently any Hoover-Donovan breach...
...academic, non-athletic pursuits which the University offers. Writers, tragic, comic, and journalistic, executives and managers, musicians and singers, actors, flyers, linguists, and riders of all sorts of hobby-horses can find a niche in the life of the college outside of the lecture room and athletic field...
...England still holds her supremacy in the field of education, not because of accumulated wealth, reckoned in terms of the busy mart, but because she still maintains these old-fashioned ideas that centuries of experience have pronounced worth while...
...enjoyment and appreciation of life that is the exception rather than the rule in the mass product of today. Today no student can hope to master any science, the laws of banking or the laws of trade. He can only touch the outer circle in medicine or law. The fields have become too large. If he attempts too much, he scatters his energies. If he concentrates too much, he becomes a specialist with narrow horizon or a cog in complicated machinery. Better the ability given by the old training, to master any subject, than a restricted knowledge of a single...