Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Mayer & Co. be assured that the deplorable public's major interest is in the major awards...
...belief that the speed and complexity of events were arousing in men and women everywhere a desire to know more about the world they live in and to discuss it intelligently, MARCH OF TIME started the 16 mm. series in 1944. Selected subjects, chosen for their lasting interest and informational values, were re-edited to emphasize points of special significance to discussion groups. "Discussion Outlines," containing supplementary material such as chronologies and bibliographies, were prepared for use with the films...
...fact, the most interesting aspect of the Forum Edition's growth has been the variety of uses to which the films have been put. Several large city police forces, for example, are using "The American Cop" to help instruct rookie patrolmen. A manufacturing concern, which had originally acquired prints of all films dealing with foreign countries to provide background information for their export division, discovered that interest in the world abroad was not confined to this department, but that the films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary...
...younger brother Charles (now the layman president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) set up a one-room law office in Cincinnati. The two young Tafts got plenty of business. Uncle Charles owned the Times-Star, and when he died Bob inherited a minority interest in Times-Star stock. He still owns it. Bob declined to join Charles in a fight to reform the corrupt city government; he strung along with the late Boss Rudolph Hynicka, used the machine's help to get to the legislature...
...acquaints the student with the broader aspects of his field of concentration through the friendly medium of a personal association. It provides that the advisor's work with his charge shall transcend the signing of a study card, and that he shall attempt to awaken the latter's interest in the educational enterprise, or, finding it awake, pass him along into the tutorial program where he belongs. Where tutorial is too strictly limited, the advisor may assign readings and carry on the work of tutoring within reasonable bounds...