Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious solution suggests itself and one that can be made immensely helpful and stimulating. In the first place assign this work of cultural stimulus to the tutors. The tutorial system is now firmly established and could well dispose of this task. Even now the first years of work under the system have little bearing on the divisional exams. In the second place, have the tutorial chairmen of all departments and representatives of the science departments compile a general bibliography of the best books, elementary and advanced, dealing with each branch of human knowledge; and by a few descriptive words...
...Prince of Wales would visit Argentina in 1925, after having visited South Africa. Even this was only half a surprise for it was known beforehand that the Prince was sometime to visit South America. British businessmen exulted over the visit which, said they, would surely act as a stimulus to trade. Mention of raising the British Legation at Buenos Aires to the rank of an Embassy was also made...
...that the patriot committed but the appeal through a recognized ritual to the sentiment of his countrymen. The appeal has not been forgotten, as the removal of his body to a more sacred resting place testifies. No one can deny that the memory of his deed will be a stimulus to haired of the United States nor that nationalists and militarists will make the most of the tradition to kindle the spirit of war. Americans may never be able to comprehend the tangled heritage of poetry and religion that gives hara-kiri such a control over the Eastern imagination...
...forms, has never been calculated. But its violent assertion of feeling was an extra puff of wind to raise even higher the wave of antagonism toward all things German. The mere depiction of French heroism, regardless to the end to which that dauntless effort was directed, was a rousing stimulus to European and American imagination and cooperation...
...automobile manufacturers, provided with facilities for enormous output, are carefully studying foreign markets these days as an outlet for their production. One of the most promising foreign markets is Great Britain. The removal of the duty on imported cars there should prove an undoubted stimulus to the sale of U. S. cars. Nevertheless, there are several difficult handicaps still to be sur- mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million...