Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will agree with Dr. David Kinley, President of the University of Illinois, that the people "who are running around in circles, beating tin pans and waving their arms to attract the attention of the world...to the utter inadequacy of our colleges and universities, the incapacity of their faculties and the imbecility of their students, need not take up much of our consideration or time." Such an attitude, however, smacks of the expedient of pouring oil on troubled waters. As long as there are any obvious flaws in the educational machinery there will be a spluttering of pens...
...Kinley himself recognizes that all is not well in the educational world. He begs the alumni of Yale and other institutions to serve their Alma Maters and their country best by wisely counseling "in the determination of our educational policy." This request calls rather for a louder beating of tin pans than for silence, for only out of a medley of criticisms can emerge a sound policy of education. And as was vaguely suggested, it is chiefly in the lack of a national policy of a national system that the educational machinery of the country is at fault...
Down at No. 23 Wall Street, Manhattan, one Thomas W. Lamont is accustomed to put in a good 8-or 9-hour day working at figures. Now a government, now a railroad, now a tin-can factory must have its figures overhauled and set again on its financial way rejoicing. There is, little time for political speculation in the high philosophic sense...
...South Sea crabs which climb cocoanut trees at night, cut down the nuts with their shears and come down to eat the meat of the nuts which have burst in falling. The planters are compelled to protect their trees with collars of tin about six inches wide, on which the crabs cannot get a foothold...
...Tomadelli, of Buenos Aires, purporting to be an eminent electrical engineer, sold stock in his "Electronic Corporation" at $100 a share. He claimed to have invented, in his laboratory at Buenos Aires, a lamp which, by withdrawing energy from the air and bombarding a substance composed of sea salt, tin, copper, asphalt and paraffin, burned continuously for seven months, needed no recharging, and would have burned on till the substance disintegrated, had the laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false or were...