Search Details

Word: furnishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...press conference at the Boston City Club's at noon today, Professor Mather will furnish more details on his one-man mission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mather | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

This report was made ... to furnish a factual and critical digest of all available literature on the subject. Competent authorities agreed that this objective was well and faithfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Dean Hanford's view according to his 1942 report, the object of a liberal arts education is to "furnish students with an idea of the accumulated culture and experience of the human race, show them the continuity of the present with the past, and provide them with some understanding of the complicated world in which they live...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgls, | Title: Dean Hanford Resigns This Month After Two Decades of Promoting Respect for Learning | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

...ultimate purpose, he says, is "to free the minds of its students from ignorance and prejudice, to provide them with a set of values and standards, and to furnish them with the tools which will enable them to form intelligent opinions, judge wisely, and make sagacious decisions...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgls, | Title: Dean Hanford Resigns This Month After Two Decades of Promoting Respect for Learning | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

Some pre-Hitler films sought out some tenable pattern for existence. Some escaped into serenely playful romantic comedies. Others advised submission and Christlike love (Dostoevsky was very popular in middle-class Germany). Still others-which were to furnish the Nazis with a theme-"combined passions and precipices," and celebrated the heroic but adolescent cult of mountain climbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Nation & Its Movies | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | Next