Word: looming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Lowell's regime, the development of new educational methods held the center of the Harvard stage. The system of concentration and distribution, the tutorial system, and the House Plan, one by one took their places in the scheme of education. But it is men and not methods which loom largest in the mind of President Conant. "Harvard's success," he says, "will depend almost entirely on our ability to procure men of the highest calibre for our student body and for our faculty. . . . If we fail in this regard there are no educational panaceas which will restore Harvard...
...faith of the few men who started this movement," concludes Author Taft, "has been amply justified. The giant may loom large; he may seem overwhelming. The inertia of people is even more discouraging. And yet this group of Davids, for all their weakness, were able to overcome Goliath of the Machine. . . . They proved that good government in American cities of substantial size is a possibility...
...many informative points these authorities raised for their audiences, the point about the chemical relation between hormones and vitamins seemed to loom most significantly...
This is the start, the very little start. We are going to be part of doing that may make the Liberty Loan drives loom out of the mists of antiquity like child's' efforts. The nation will have district recovery boards and state recovery councils. These all overshadowing the regional administrations and the state advisory boards for public works and the state advisory boards for the home owners loan corporation and such minor machinery. Not a commission among them, however, Herbert Hoover's friends no doubt note...
Next day this definition was signed all over again in a special regional pact between Russia, Turkey and the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia). By many London observers Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, sponsor of the nonaggression treaties, was thought to loom as a new leader in Eastern Europe, the champion of the "Little Entente" and Poland against possible German aggression. In Warsaw, where every Pole hates & fears Adolf Hitler, relieved Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck exclaimed: "This is a most important political act - a great step toward organization of world peace!" Farsighted Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov...