Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops a nest in the sand, squeezes into it from her abdomen several thousand ripe eggs. Swimming over it, the male fertilizes the eggs. Then both lose interest in their family, for the founding of which they have traveled miles up the river. Covering the eggs with sand both male and female go off and die. Some fortunate few struggle back to the ocean to grow sleek and begin the cycle over again next year.* Many an Alaskan salmon, however...
...nerves already raw from the public interest taken in his social battle in behalf of Mrs. Gann (TIME, April 15), the Vice President last week exploded on the matter of his Mayflower rent. Said he with hot feeling...
...Christopher Dumaine. Outstanding feature of the report was Treasurer Du-maine's promise to "keep the mills running here as long as I can." Ominous was this remark, yet apparently not unjustified. The report showed a loss from operations of $960,698. Among expenses were some $860,000 interest on bonds, $700,000 local taxes, $1,000,000 repairs, $337,000 for new machinery, $95,000 for moving machinery from Fitchburg to Manchester. Other items were bad debts and outlay for printing new securities. "Making up the income account in the way prescribed by the government," said the report...
...addition, President Lowell said that "the problem of education is to stimulate interest in the mind of the youth and thus lead him to make the proper effort voluntarily and not merely to find for him something he likes, which," he continued, "most often is nothing in particular. All education is self-education, excepting that acquired mechanically, and what one gets out of education depends entirely upon the effort put into the acquisition...
Before the colleges call go much farther, however, they must have more satisfactory material sent up to them from secondary schools. It is during the four or five pre-college year that one's habits of study and interest in learning are most easily formed. Theoretically it should be the time for "quickening the appetite for intellectual things, making men realize that working hard is worth while." But owing to the many complications arising in our present system, it is not until a man gets to college that anything like this happens, and how often it is then too late...