Word: staticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) continued static and unfruitful last week despite the holding of a public session at which the position of each of the three delegations was restated unchanged but with polemic fervor. Reduced to elementals, the deadlock could be stated in two stages...
...there are some advantages to the arrangement. Perhaps not until another three years have passed will they be privileged to view a Cambridge whose glory is its static calm; not for three years will they see the midsummer aura of languidness seize what is wont to be an alert and nervous university town; and not until then will they be able to enjoy in unrivalled possession the wide spaces of Mount Auburn Street where, safe from the deadly student motor car, they may amble at peace, buried is Harris and Bierwirth. Sophomores and Juniors, and even roaming. Seniors shall pass...
...unequalled opportunity for research and is provided with the proper facilities and machinery of organization, is progression--so that the course now offered will be changed from one in which the latter half is a mere reiteration of the former, to one whose instruction is never at any time static...
Schooling. "For the most part the medical curriculum is static, rigid and shot full of antique methods, ideas and procedures. It often misguides individuals into the belief that they have completed their education when they have wandered successfully through its intricacies and mazes. It is difficult to train a man or woman to work largely with his hands and senses in the care of the sick when he has been brought up in the present pass-the-buck atmosphere of the ordinary hospital mechanism for the diagnosis and care of the sick. The more work done by the student...
...clock this morning. President Lowell will speak from the offices of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company on Oliver Street, Boston. He will deliver a prepared message to Vice-Chancellor Weekes. Weather conditions, and report last night indicated that the conversation would not be interrupted by static to any great extent...