Word: plane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Physics, embracing a general college course; mathematics, including one or two questions in algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic and differential calculus; technics, covering the general field of mechanics, industrial arts and processes, and applied chemistry; inorganic chemistry, qualitative analysis and elementary organic; French or German; mechanical drawing...
...such work with dignity. None of the endowed universities are giving correspondence courses, but a large number of the state institutions of the West have found them an admirable method of obtaining popular support. When Columbia finally adopts them and puts them of the same non-money making plane as the rest of its extension courses, there will be no great complaint of any breach of academic etiquette, nor should there be. --Boston Transcript...
...succumb to the brush of this futurist artist. Aeroplane hangars went up with astounding rapidity and French machines multiplied just as rapidly. The French control of the air during the last and vital month of preparation was one of the outstanding features of the whole thing. French planes hovered over the supply trains and bases, French planes swept across the lines into the enemy's territory, but not one German plane was visible during the month of June. It was due to their airmen that the French did that last month's tremendous work so successfully. At one point, where...
...demonstrated the value of systematic class-room training for the engineer; the college could render a similar service to the growing profession of business. At the University the great professional schools were graduate in character, and the School of Business Administration, established in 1908, was put on the same plane. It was to give a professional training, scientific in method yet practical in application, to young men aiming to be business executives. This purpose the teachers of the School have endeavored to fulfill; and the steady growth of the student body, now representing the graduates of seventy-two colleges from...
That trade unionism has gained a foothold in almost every field of labor is emphasized by a recent development in the theatrical world. Though actors have previously considered their profession one of the arts, and therefore on a social plane above labor organization, recently they voted to submit a proposition to affiliate themselves with the American Federation of Labor. Since actors as well as motormen must protect themselves from possible encroachments of employers, the Actors' Equity Association convened simultaneously in five large cities, and voted unanimously to consider in May the proposal to unite with the largest labor organization...