Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work on the hand-book were acclaimed the most imminent, and it was decided to meet both questions by more closely binding together the separate clubs through a union of the different officers into one common committee. No further action was taken and the hand-book is no nearer publication than before. The attendance at the meeting was discouragingly small...
...Harvard seems to have found the men, the methods, and the beginning of notable achievement in making the profession of business more scientific and more efficient--in bringing business nearer to its proper place as an applied science...
When the party drew nearer the lost city, they came into a country which the Indians themselves knew nothing about. This the engineers surveyed very carefully. The city was finally found on the top of a mountain, for the most part burried under a growth of plant life which took months to be cleared away. Professor Bingham called attention to the ingenious way in which the Incas built their houses: entirely of huge blocks of granite, with the aid of no cement, derricks or metal tools. A typical example was a temple erected on a stone which slanted...
...team of his services and is excused. Change is not coming like a miracle; the attitude of the undergraduates cannot be metamorphosed in a night; but every move toward the enforcement of probation is a move in the right direction. Enough of them, and perhaps we may come somewhat nearer the Utopia in which college work is awarded its proper place in the scale of importance...
...stars in the two zones. This work is almost ready for publication. The work of ascertaining the color of all the stars has been started within the last year. The most recent publications are Volume 76, Part I, by Professor King, showing that distant stars are redder than nearer stars; and Volume 78, Part I, by Professor Bailey, which is a study of the variable stars in the clusters