Word: spurring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...
...race will be held over the new Tuckerman Ravine ski trail from the Mountaineering Club's spur cabin to the Crystal Cascade, just above Pinkham Notch. Competitors will be sent off down the trial at intervals of two minutes to avoid overlapping, but should any skier be overtaken by the man following him he is automatically disqualified. This course has been covered this winter in slightly under seven minutes...
...noon, just before the meet, the Mountaineering Club and its guests will held a house-warming party to celebrate the completion of its new long house, known as Spur Cabin. The cabin is located half a mile below Hermit Lake at an elevation of 3800 feet. All the building materials were carried up the mountain from Pinkham Notch by members of the club, who estimate that they have packed about 2500 pounds on their backs since last October...
...almost exclusively from Harvard, or favored sections of the country; it might develop into a group, characterized by intellectual snobbishness and unduly impressed with its own importance. Properly conceived, it can have two important results. For the brilliant man, it should be a priceless goal, a sharp spur to original thought. To the average student, it should give answer to oft repeated condemnations of advanced study as useless research, and should inspire a new respect for great scholarship...
...annual report to President Lowell, Dean Hanford has included nothing radical. The House Plan and the depression continue to act as a spur to better scholarship among undergraduates; college costs have been reduced, and the amount of scholarship aids has been maintained relatively stable; the experiment of exempting seniors from hour examinations should be given further trial; and thee is the old land grave question of how many financially dependent students the College can absorb with benefit both to the institution and to the individual. Problems have arisen and have been met; throughout the whole there is a tone...