Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncontroversial. The House last week had up the last of the big rearmament appropriations, $292,695,547 for personnel, new airbases, etc., and to buy 2,290 more planes for the Army Air Corps. The Republicans managed momentarily to strike some $37,000,000 from the bill, on the ground that 1,283 of the proposed ships, intended for reserves, might be obsolete before commissioned. The Democrats rallied, voted the reserve planes back in, passed the whole bill on to the Senate. Striking feature : provision for giving Army pilots their first three months' training at commercial air schools...
...views on that subject are that the best education occupies a middle ground between old-fashioned education for discipline and the newfangled education for fun. In education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated responses to a stimulus, and the inculcation of socially useful habits is a major function of education. On the relation of Europe's present troubles to thinking habits, Dr. Conklin says...
...most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole in the ground in Menlo Park, N. J., where Thomas A. Edison and his helpers threw their laboratory junk...
Some geneticists feel that Morgan overemphasized the independent action ot single genes. But they do not deny that genes exist. The Moscow students denied it flatly, on the ground that "the concept of the gene contradicts dialectical materialism." They asserted that in good Russian eyes "formal genetics" or "Mendelianism-Morganism" should be as outmoded as the myth that the world is supported on the backs of whales and tortoises...
...fact that it combines the functions of prosecution and adjudication is ground for frequent criticism...