Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coaches Jack MacDonald and Dick Ashley hope for large turnouts to lend impetus to the newly-planned summer soccer and tennis schedules. The booters will be battling for places on the regular fall eleven, while the netters will seek to match their successful record over the past spring's matches...
...former Chemistry professor into a world figure will emphasize two conditions that lend perspective to what has happened. First, Conant is a leading chemist in an age that has given a favored place to men ow science; second, his achievements as President of Harvard University have lent only minor impetus, both quantitatively and qualitatively, to the growth of the Conant legend...
...Impetus for yesterday's Town-Gown at- tack on the problem was furnished by the passage by the state legislature of a veterans housing bill giving cities and towns the right to acquire "tracts of land which are entirely, or almost, unoccupied by buildings," by right of eminent domain, to be used for housing "of a temporary nature," for a period not to exceed five years...
...eventual aggression from nations claiming to be fearful for their own safety. . . . If, however, we give the "secret" to an international control commission, we i) show the Russians (against whom, after all, this secrecy is being directed) that we are ready to trust them, i) give a strong impetus for success of the United Nations Organization, 3) furnish a strong moral persuader to other nations to follow our example in cosmopolitan behavior, and 4) lose nothing which we won't lose shortly in any event, if we haven't already done...
Pundit Lippmann overlooked the impetus of one episode on Roosevelt's life, because few talked aloud about the crippling paralysis that came in 1921 and Roosevelt's courageous comeback...