Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal lands in Kentucky, containing a potential supply of 500,000,000 tons of bituminous coal. He plans to supply fuel from this huge virgin tract for all his own factories, the factories making Ford accessories and those other manufacturing plants that care to participate in his coal conservation scheme...
This conservation scheme embodies a plan to use the coal twice. Mr. Ford has announced that he will ask all industrial users of his coal to install furnaces that will remove only the gas, leaving a fuel unimpaired for domestic purposes. The coal, after this process, would be sold to heat the homes of hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country. According to a technical explanation of this gas removing process, the fuel would then be more valuable than ordinary coal for heating...
Although the changing or deletion of 346 verses is far more drastic than any scheme that has ever been put forward before, members of Bishop Ryle's committee report that they have removed only a few of the conspicuous blemishes...
...interlude of the war disturbed this scheme of things. Instead of the old, conventional picture, people saw only Mark Twain's students of Heidelberg, bloody and scarred with duelling. Reputations are more easily ruined than made, and German university life is recuperating slowly in foreign eyes. Yet the universities are determined to overcome prejudices. Leipzig, Heidelberg, Frankfort are again throwing open their doors with special summer lecture courses for Americans. This renewed opportunity for hearing great German lectuerers in literature, art music, and economics, together with all the advantages of a vacation in Germany, where the dollar still has magic...
There is one further profit to be had from this scheme. The tutor theoretically, is the one agent in the educational outfit who can, through his personal contact encourage interest in the better sort of scholarship and eventually lessen the false emphasis on marks. At present, that power remains mere theory. In our machine, the tutor is simply an accessory; the lecture system, with frequent examinations, is the framework, to which he has to attach himself as best be may. In England, on the contrary, he is one of the drive-wheels, the only person to whom the student...