Word: impetuses
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...electronic ecstasy. Replacing vacuum tubes, they say, is not the whole story: transistors will be far more versatile than vacuum tubes. There may be transistor amplifiers in telephone receivers. Airplanes and guided missiles can carry electronic equipment that is now too heavy and fragile. Transistors will give a new impetus to development of electronic-control apparatus for automatic factories. Perhaps the most exciting possibility is in the rapidly growing field of electronic computers. Transistors can be built, theoretically, almost as small as the neurons (nerve cells) that serve as relays in the human brain, and they react several thousand times...
Monro did not take long to go into action. It was he who provided most of the impetus for the precedent-breaking student porter plan (see below). And last spring John W. Holt was released as director of Student Employment and replaced by Graham R. Taylor '49 amidst rumors of policy clashes, especially about favoritism to athletes...
...idea that human dignity must be a mixture of bad as well as good is an old one; what gives it added impetus in the film is Kirk Douglas' moving portrayal of a man whose intense idealism precludes both pity and understanding. That the hard-bitten New York detective sees his problem and realizes his inability to deal with it is the tragedy of the play. His virtual suicide at the end of the movie is not just an easy way out for the play-wright; it is the only possible resolution of the conflict...
Here on the east coast, rugby has been neither as long nor as firmly established. The real impetus of its growth has come since the war, with the introduction of the Bermuda week. Today, all big eastern universities have teams except Columbia. Dartmouth is the latest comer. They sent their first team to Bermuda last spring...
...Francisco, the free world had buttressed its bastion in the Pacific. Last week the Big Three's Foreign Ministers looked to their Atlantic defenses. Under the impetus of a new sense of solidarity, they swiftly reached tentative decisions as far reaching as those made in San Francisco...