Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving snowstorm. When he is taken in by a farm woman who catches him stealing the bran mash she has set out for her chickens he falls into a sickness, later works for a harsh Methodist parson whose daughter he marries, and from then on concerns himself with the gradual accumulation of wealth as a small farmer...
Despite the indubitable value of an educational policy which allows upperclassmen a wide sphere of independence, this principle has been carried to an extreme in many of the advanced courses. In some cases it has resulted in the total abolition of section meetings and a gradual widening of the breach between students and professors...
...permitted to look at turtles, snakes, lizards and bats which had been frozen for four months and warmed back to life. The new technique involves quick freezing of the outside of the creature, slow penetration of the cold to the vitals. While sudden or "one-sided" warming was fatal, gradual and uniform warming brought successful revival...
...this experiment proves successful it is thought very possible that it will lead not only to the gradual elimination of laboratory work for most of those taking Geology 1, but also to a great liberalizing of the course routine in such similar courses as Geography 1a and b. For a number of years the major complaint made by students against the elementary science courses has been directed at the formalism and lack of interest current in the laboratory periods...
Savage though his attack on the holding company has been, President Roosevelt apparently realized that a $12,000,000,000 industry could not be reorganized overnight without ill effects on general business. The future Public Utility Act of 1935 contemplates a gradual liquidation. All holding companies, unless specifically exempted, must register before next October with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which will thereafter hold an almost absolute veto power over holding company finances, including the issuance of new securities and the purchase and sale of assets...