Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Dunster once complained that, in addition to doing all the teaching himself, he had to be the students' steward, "and to direct their brewer, baker, buttler, cook, how to proportion their commons." But he soon had help in this, and in the teaching, too; for the best men in the class of 1642 were induced to stay on as resident bachelors and tutors until they took their master's degree. Among this first crop of tutors was the man after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find...
...Oxford cannot turn even an able and gifted man into a world-conqueror. It can make even a dull and prejudiced man realize that national animosities spring from misunderstanding and unwillingness to entertain a more humane view of international relations. An Oxford education turns out thoughtful men able to help, not doctrinaires with a bagful of remedies for the world...
...interrupt the development of a winter paradise. But now the crazy land-booms have subsided. The damage of the latest hurricanes is repaired and future damage provided against more carefully. The visits this year of the country's two leading figures, the outgoing Coolidge and the incoming Hoover, help to date a new prosperity in Florida and the whole Southeast...
...does not ignore the lead with which General Motors starts the contest. But he sees no limit to the markets over which the two motor-monsters can struggle. Last September, he visioned a world which is learning the uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...
...noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn and red leather upholstery. It was the 1905 Locomobile. The salesman...