Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron has not done well since 1926. Last week another Akron company, B. F. Goodrich Co. (Silvertown Cords), proposed a merger. Chief Miller products are tires (Miller De Luxe Balloon: "The tire sensation of a decade"), but the company also makes a complete line of rubber goods. Another recent step in Goodrich expansion was the acquisition of Hood Rubber Co. (TIME, Sept...
...right track, and that the policy which is indicated is one of far-reaching significance. The endowment and subsidizing of research in the field of science is familiar enough, but in the arts it is not quite as usual. And yet this is the next logical step in the emancipation of the college professor from the drudgery of the daily dollar, and the consequent reestablishment of the university in its rightful place of a seat of learning in the sense of a center of investigation by learned men as well as of instruction. The continued pursuance and enlargement of such...
...research assistantships which would enable the University to give professors competent assistants like those provided for investigators in other fields. It also suggested that funds might be secured for the investigation of particular subjects that happened to be of timely interest. In conclusion, it pointed out that the first step is usually the hardest. The endowment of economic research at Harvard or any other university is a thing that can be finally and conclusively justified only by its results, while such results, in turn, are impossible without an endowment the necessity of which is not generally recognized. With hope, therefore...
...bolster a falling superstructure. Contemporaneous with the departure to England of one of Harvard's most brilliant scholars and popular teachers, the second appearance of the English authority is opportune in balancing the deficit occasioned by the loss of Professor Lowes. The acquisition of both men represents a definite step by the administration to maintain the reputation which the English Department of Harvard enjoys at present...
...Princetonian joins with Dean Gauss in congratulating Mr. Harkness and rejoicing with Yale and Harvard; it feels that the plan is the most logical and courageous step yet taken to solve those problems of growth which have harassed American universities in the last three decades. Daily Princetonian...