Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gimbel Brothers store in Philadelphia. A diver was sent down to the ocean bottom at Atlantic City. A telephone in his helmet was attached to a cable connected with the shore. Here there was an amplifier connected by telephone with the broadcasting station in Philadelphia. From the scientific standpoint there was nothing very difficult in this achievement...
From a practical standpoint, however, the fact remains that the most active work done in getting out the vote is carried on by political parties. Their managers always have the im- pression that the voters who do not vote would vote for their candidates if they got to the polls. In 1920, something less than 27 million votes were cast. It is generally expected that over 30 million will be cast this year. The party workers who get out the vote are paid, and the greater the vote, the greater it may be expected that campaign expenses will...
...Also, Germans must be exported, as well as German goods. Clemenceau said there were 20,000,000 Germans too many; and from the economic standpoint he was quite right. Germany as transformed by the Treaty of Versailles cannot support her 60,000,000 population...
...certain point such discussion does not apply to the technical student, for his is a specific training toward a very definite end. From the standpoint of the general student, however, this growing viewpoint in American college circles means the development of a more splendid educational opportunity than has hitherto existed here...
...everything would be efficient. As for children, the State would pay their parents the cost of bringing them up-and if their parents did not want them, they would be reared at State institutions in charge of experts. It is a remarkable, a "devastating" idea. From a practical standpoint it bristles with difficulties. A question would be whether people would care to live in such a well-organized society. After...