Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dormitories, recitation halls, libraries, banks, boathouses, subway stations, monuments and gymnasiums peer forth from behind tall brick chimneys and defy us to orient ourselves. The street cars thunder past every minute or two, and conversation on Massachusetts Avenue is impossible due to their flat-wheeled discord. The chance of meeting a violent death from automobiles every time we go to class has become common-place, and only a falling blimp or an earthquake can now thrill us. If the purpose of life be considered as a preparation for the hereafter, we are rapidly acquiring the proper nonchalance toward the transition...
...sale of five President vessels (TIME, Apr. 13) for $1,000,000 cash and $5,250,000 in instalments over ten years, was executed by the U. S. Shipping Board and the Dollar Steamship Line. As the ships arrive in San Francisco on their return voyages from the Orient, they will be delivered to their new masters...
This spring, Captain Robbie Dollar's son crossed the continent to Washington, bought from the U. S. the only Shipping Board passenger ships trading with the Orient which the Dollars did not already run (TIME, Apr. 13, 27). Unintentionally, he set tongues to work again on the hoary question: "Subsidize...
...yield to our urge to understand living matter. So it is with each great branch of study. Each acquaints us with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares all these desires and traces their results so far as is necessary for a man to orient himself among them and to decide what he, individually and in his group, intends to do about it, what shape his life will take, his life as a producer of wealth, as a friend of men and women, as the father of a family, as a citizen as a member...
...correspondent in the Orient...