Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increasing value of business training in military service. The American army has always been a pioneer in adopting scientific business methods and at present has many technical and industrial training colleges. A number of college graduates annually enter the army for the purpose of getting commissions and this constant influx of trained men has created a high standard throughout the service. Secretary McNider's system will provide and additional group of military specialists to supplement the army in case of war. It will be no great innovation but the result of a growing need for technically trained men. My impression...
...whole apparatus of Tsarol industry, he declared, is being utilized to the limit without sufficiently rapid replacement of worn out machinery, is being used up. The influx of half a million untrained workers into the factories has further slowed production, greatly lowered the pre-Revolution standard of production per man per day. On the contrary, the peasantry's production of foodstuffs per man has somewhat increased. Ergo, plentiful bushels of grain have sunk in value before scarce, manufactured products...
...supplied by the spacious roominess and many vacant pews of Appleton chapel shall be better supplied with greater spaciousness and more vacant news in the form of a splendid new church, while "that which hath not", namely Hemenway Gymnasium, shall be deprived of what it has, when an increasing influx of graduate students from the new business school and other quarters consume what little ozone is left in those musty vaults. Thousands of Harvard men are asked to contribute their means to the Memorial Church, built in Georgian Design and holding 1600 students, so that a suitable memorial may stand...
...centers of cultured, cavalier life. Remote traces of this somehow managed to survive the evils of reconstruction. The last twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx of speculating northerners suggested the possibility of this region becoming a veritable slough of Babbittry, rivaling even the Middle West in wide-spread vulgarity. Such a condition seemed imminent in the absence of an effective counteracting influence...
...liberals of the Court. He has never been known as an old fogy. He is no stickler over small technicalities, not one to place the tradition of the law above the majesty of justice. He has written: "Law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky." With the influx of liberal members to the Court in recent years and his contributions to jurisprudence, he has been more and more recognized in the law schools not only of this country but of England. Last fall Chief Justice Taft remarked: "Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes continues to honor the Supreme Court...