Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attract a definite type of man who is not primarily a student, and they will continue to attract this type regardless of outside attacks on their scholastic standing. The whole evil is but a part of the general American glorification of athletics, a popular fancy which finds a convenient outlet in certain colleges...
...team this year has consisted in little else than occupying a seat in the so-called "cheering" section is enough to shame any Harvard man who has an ounce of sporting blood. We cheer only when we are personally excited by a good play, merely as an emotional outlet, and not with any idea of maintaining the morale of the team. We have become like a gambler in stocks whose support of a company is based only on its chances of increment, to be abandoned at any weakening...
...stockholders other than the present management. We are going to see the company properly run, by those who have a real interest in it." Avco: "Our directors are financiers, industrial leaders, representing widely distributed stock. Why turn the company over to a plane manufacturer who merely seeks a controlled outlet for his product...
...time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum. Then he solders up the hole. The method Dr. Alvarez prefers gives the stomach an artificial outlet. The ulcerated section of the duodenum or jejunum is cut out, the healthy ends are sewed together and to the stomach's artificial opening. Thus the jejunum connects directly with the acid stomach, gets a protective alkaline seepage from the connected duodenum. By this procedure the Mayo Clinic avoids...
...architectural profession is striving to carry on, to believe in beauty, and to eat during a period of no building. The Architects of Chicago, having no outlet through steel and stone and brick, created with ideas and canvas and paint, a Latin Quarter Fête. We employed 75 draftsmen, many of whom had been out of work for months. Many of these men were Beaux Arts men-some of them Paris Prize men. They worked creatively and happily, for a small daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever...