Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic, sociological, psychological, physiological and pathological phenomena manifested by the civilized nations and their constitutive individuals. And to that of the development of Science and of the influence of its applications to our habits of life and of thought. They would endeavor to discover how modern civilization could mold itself to man without crushing any of his essential qualities. Their silent meditation would protect the inhabitants of the new city from the mechanical inventions which are dangerous for their body or their mind, from the adulteration of thought as well as food, from the whims of the specialists in education...
Emissaries of the modern Paul Revere are scouring the country for recruits in the undergraduate militia which is to make Harvard a national university. He aims toward a live and vigorous Faculty which will help mold the national life...
...reaching changes in the distribution requirements announced today by Dean Hanford will relieve and delight all the undergraduates, who have long suffered intellectual cramps from the rigidity of the old mold into which they have hitherto been poured. The new distribution requirement, which allows any four courses outside one's field of concentration, frees the student to tread more pleasant paths where his own in interests lead him, but opens the way to a new danger. For any abuse of the plan leading to further narrowing of the academic itinerary will now permit the erring student to stew...
...Milwaukee, Wis., toothless L. M. Crouch stuffed wax in his gums; hardened the wax by holding cold water in his mouth; from this mold made a base of litharge, plaster of Paris and mercurochrome; stuck into it pieces of a porcelain dinner plate; filed the pieces smooth with emery paper and had a serviceable set of false teeth, with which to attend a Boy Scout dinner. Last week, he announced that the china teeth, in service since February, would be presented to a museum when he gets the set he has ordered from a dentist...
...University authorities. The executive council declared, but has been created in order to raise the morale of the commuters as a group and to open a new vista of college life for them. To bring about the desired results, the council hopes to procure a club house and thereby mold the commuters into a more cohesive body...