Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philosophy for industrial civilization, Hoover said, "It can't be helped. Stanford must be changed." So mass education came in. The oldtime stars of the faculty, like John Branner and Dr. David Starr Jordan (since 1916 president-emeritus), were surrounded and succeeded by run-of-the-mill instructors. Classics receded before technical subjects to the point where, for example, courses in art are now open only to students requiring such knowledge as the utilitarian equipment of a teaching career...
This, uttered last week, was not a college proctor's description of a rowdy alumni reunion, nor a gang foreman's account of a herd of roustabouts let loose in a gin mill. .It was a description, by an officer of the .law in Pennsylvania, of an orgy last week conducted by other Pennsylvania officers of the law in defiance of a law which, they afterward observed, few persons of their acquaintance believe in anyway...
...Mercer, the coal has been pulverized in one machine, then distributed to three furnaces, but the latest improvement provides each furnace with its own pulverizer and does away altogether with the problem of distribution. The new pulverizer is attached to the door of any furnace. Like a large coffee mill, it grinds the coal until talcum powder would look coarse in comparison; sprays it into the greedy furnace where it becomes incandescent almost immediately...
Their tempers were not improved by word of the I. C. C.'s decision to allow the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway to build 38 miles of new line from Cochran's Mill (Pa.) to Connellsville (Pa.), over the protest of competing lines, Pennsylvania, Nickel Plate, Baltimore and Ohio, Wheeling and Lake Erie...
General office work with a large moving picture corporation, general office work combined with production work in a jewelry manufacturing concern, production work in a southern cotton mill, and general real estate business in New York City are among other positions still available...