Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notion that went out of fashion as formal universities came in at the end of the Middle Ages, but which has been revived of recent years ? was reiterated last week by ten Harvard undergraduates who submitted the fruits of a five-month scrutiny of the socioeducational plant and plan to which they had submitted their so-called formative years. Unlike similar surveys lately made at Dartmouth and Bowdoin, the young Harvard gentlemen had been urged to their task by no authority higher than their own creative curiosity. They took their findings before a council of their fellows and then...
...academic walls, we can live in an imaginary world far from reality?" Thus he voices the general suspicion that more than a few teachers in great colleges, as well as in less advanced departments of education, have turned to this profession not through a fierce and productive desire to plant knowledge where it will flourish but to find a quiet academic breakwater where they can dream comfortably...
...important things which were unknown was how the mildew spread. I found that the spores of the fungus are produced only at night when the leaves of the plant which they infest are covered with dew. At such times the spores are produced in immense numbers and with a fresh breeze sweeping down from the mountains, they are carried all over the country side, so that they often infest a large extent of land in a single night. One of the interesting things about the production of these spores is that they follow a schedule almost as regular as that...
...conference with the press the President explained what he wanted done with Muscle Shoals (q. v.): 1) If possible Congress should decide definitely on a lease of the plant before the end of the present session. 2) Some provision should be in the lease so that the lessee would be required to manufacture nitrates as well as electric power, because the manufacture of nitrates would not only tend to give farmers cheaper fertilizer but be absolutely vital to the country in time of war, since nitrates are essential to the production of explosives and the U.S. has almost no domestic...
They began their tour by visiting a newspaper, an ice plant, a bakery, several power plants, and the garment factories in New York City. The most astounding thing to them was the wages paid, especially to women workers. So far as the press was concerned, they were a bit slow in formulating their estimates of what they saw, but one of them said: "One can observe the close co-operation between the worker and the employer at once. The wages, of course, are unusually high. It is my impression that high wages bring high production, although some hold...