Word: impetuses
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Established in 1939 on the impetus of a fight against local commercial tutoring schools, the recently renamed Bureau of Study Counsel is now actively helping many undergraduate veterans return to academic life with a program based on up-to-date research and clinical assistance...
When the blizzard clears in south England, all of western Europe will look to the British cabinet for a way out of national despair. The United States can provide modern techniques and aid, and Europe the markets, but only Downing Street can lend the initial impetus that will bring the British lion in off the streets...
...midst of this ponderous Army game, a few conclusions stand clear. The first is that there is a strong impetus stemming from high places for permanent cutbacks in tutorial. Whether this squares with the Administration's claim that tutorial is now on a "firmer footing" is left for future tutor-less undergraduates to evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed...
Adult education programs currently on the upsurge in the Greater Boston Area are gaining impetus this year as University professors take the platform of the Boston Library Lecture Hall in a series of free public lecture courses presented under the sponsorship of the historic Lowell Institute...
...nothing better than a desk in a side office. But that night he had the locks changed on the doors. The next day he strode in at 7 o'clock and grabbed the desk in the executive office-from which Arnall had thoughtfully removed all his correspondence. Gathering impetus, Hummon also moved his family into the governor's mansion (which Arnall had vacated also), and left his wife and mother happily "unstopping the commodes" and hustling up meals...