Word: impetuses
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...Significance of such a book as this might be emphasized by its "election" to one of the new monthly book clubs with their impetus-lending memberships. Sociologically it overshadows any novel that may be written this year or another, precisely as a college lecture overshadows a country school spelling bee. Indeed it was delivered in substance during a series of lectures to an international group of students at Geneva. Whatever readers its rapid, crystalline, aphoristic pages fail to drive back to the best in U. S. literature, it will furnish with at least a vivid sequence of that literature...
...Riders, dabbled in politics in South Dakota. But he was and is a shrewd lawyer. The Standard Oil wanted him. Soon the general counsel was made chairman of the board (1918).* He summoned lethargic directors to thrice-weekly meetings, made them agree unanimously on every decision. Under the Stewart impetus the company grew big with physical properties and profits. More than 15,000 employe stockholders shared the resulting pleasures...
...themselves. What is far more important at present than the relative merits of the two proposals, upon which no judgment can fairly be pronounced so early, is the incidental publicity which they will afford to collegiate debating. Space, headlines, discussion, all these are blessings which will give no negligible impetus to a languishing...
Robert Fisher, Harvard head coach for most of the time to which Hubbard's changes relate, condemns him unqualifiedly and hesitates to make any comment "o specific charges lest will give impetus to a subject that should never have been brought up." Representative Hamilton Fish, a former Harvard captain, is "ashamed" "that any ex-Harvard player should rush into print and charge Princeton football teams with deliberately playing dirty football and being coached to disable their opponents by illegal and unfair method." Fish played in a period when Harvard was almost uniformly victorious under Haughton's coaching...
...hesitate to comment on specific charges lest it give impetus to a subject which should never have been brought up. I shall do so only in the event that I feel, in justice to Princeton, this should be done...