Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, the practical difficulties may dictate a compromise with the principle. For the present at least, it may be better to proceed cautiously with the area idea, and to advance generally on the basis of the combined fields of concentration plan. That this advance would be on solid ground is fully demonstrated by the success of a combination such as History and Literature. The emphasis and the trend from specialization is the same. Ultimately, when all the implications have been realized, and when a capable staff has been trained, the area system may conceivably flower forth in its full glory...
Last time the President asked for more WPA money, a potent factor on his side was snow on the ground in Washington. Last week, though a late March blizzard might yet come, nature sided with the Economizers. The White House lawns were verdant. Cherry and forsythia bloomed in capital gardens...
...author subtitles his book "Studies in Classics of Christian Devotion." But the ground covered in his lectures is far more extensive than a mere theological discussion. Taking as his subject six great literary milestones of Christian thought all the way from Augustine's "Confessions" to the diary of John Woolman, he paints behind each a portrait of the author and a landscape of the times. With sweeping strokes he brings to life the intellectual atmosphere in which each of these great masterpieces was produced, showing the essential huntanity of each work as well as its significance. The startling contrast between...
...great virtue in Dean Sperry's treatment of his material is his impersonality. A less skillful writer would have tried to force his own beliefs into his study of others. Dean Sperry, however, meets the layman on his own ground, discussing the material in the light of modern psychology, modern philosophy, and modern literary thought. He does not seek to glorify or debase but merely to explain in terms of modern thought what these "Classics of Christian Devotion" were trying to say. The reader is left to judge for himself whether what was said was worth saying...
Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...