Word: repell
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...aware of the unlimited treasures which may be unearthed by any earnest college student. He realizes that the majority of college educations are not wasted, although there be many misfits in the advanced educational palaces of today, and consequently he does not, as some may claim, attempt to repel the surging wave of American youth into the colleges, professional and technical schools which may or may not be anxious to harbor them. His objective, as connoted by his versed opinions seems to be this, that a clear understanding of what real education is, may be gained, just where to look...
...effect: "The physical improvements which the railroads have instituted the past few years make railroading easier and safer than theretofore. Eastern roads earned on the average 5.13% upon their investments last year, 2.76% in 1921 and 5.74% in 1916. This wage increase will detract from these meagre dividends and repel investors." The decision means that $4,000,000 must be deducted from the Pennsylvania Railroad's profits, that each of its 10,000,000 shares of stock (par value $50) surrenders 40? of his dividends. The Erie's wage tax increases by $650,000, or 37? for each...
...scheme of education. Victories or defeats as such have nothing to do with the efficacy of this ideal. As Yale, Harvard and Princeton live this ideal they will earn the right to be called the Big Three. Their influence on American education depends upon their determination to repel any forces that through selfishness and distorted loyalty seek to break that fellowship...
...Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing the main current. About this cathode was built another innovation in vacuum tubes, a metal cup designed to repel electrons backfiring against it and converge them forward in a narrow stream at greatly accelerated speed. This stream was pointed down the tube's other neck, a foot long, the sides of which were likewise sheathed in metal to guide the electrons on their way. At the tube...
...units in military schools; an air force in Alaska; an agreement with Canada for airways northward from the continental U.S.; an airplane capable of traveling 200 miles an hour at 30,000 feet altitude and with a cruising radius of 1,500 miles; a study of how to repel an aerial attack on cities such as New York. He said that he believed an enemy war ship lying 100 miles off Manhattan could pump aerial torpedoes into the city...