Word: impetuses
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...study of the subject I have observed how such utilization of a natural resource which otherwise would run into waste in the sea and not remain and increase as the forest would, both gives impetus to industrial life and provides a safe and enduring investment for capital...
...majority of about 40,000, the Province of Ontario, Canada, decided to remain dry. At once an impetus was given to the prohibition movement...
...will gainsay the statement that no great change in the average student's attitude towards work can be attained unless the major impetus be supplied by the teacher. Accordingly, to better the student it is necessary to better the teacher...
...vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing into "balderdash" on the one hand or the "sour beer" attitude on the other, to quote his terms, he has been penetrating enough to embody the spirit of a senior in a fashion adapted with fine appropriateness to the occasion of commencement...
...plans for the Workshop and the doings of its members. Since we completed ten years of our work together,--some of us writing and producing, you stimulating and shaping by your attendance and comments,--I have felt the need of rest and a gathering of new impetus. However, till now, I have not seen the time when I believed that I could rightly allow the activities of the 47, Workshop to cease for a year. Last Spring, a fire in the attic of Massachusetts Hall seriously burned the roof--admittedly, for this the 47 Workshop was in no way responsible...