Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intangible in the clause stating the desired "emphasis on character and fitness, and the promise of the greatest usefulness in the future as a result of a Harvard education." There is no attempt made at definition of this "usefulness." There are many who think of education not as a tool to enable them to be useful. To men who prize a Harvard education, or any education, not for its value to something to be determined later, but for the opportunity which it offers for individual growth free of curbing restraint, the phrase will convey a meaning not in accord with...
MATORNI'S VINEYARD-E. Phillips Op-pehheim-Little, Brown ($2). Realistic international intrigue of 1940, Riviera the stake, tennis player the tool, masterly double of Mussolini the imminent background...
...whole as well as the minutiae of legal disputes undimmed by the years. Many lawyers have found in him a new keenness of attack, born since he left behind the retiring age of seventy. He has never been a didacticist; the law has always been a tool to his hand rather than a monstrous, all-enveloping Principle. He has recognized that the preventive is forever superior to the punitive in lawmaking. When President Roosevelt in 1902 took him from the supreme court bench of Massachusetts to serve the nation it was in the realization that the war against trusts would...
Alfred Lee Loomis, banker (Bonbright & Co.), electro-physicist (effects of high frequency sound waves) had as guest at his splendid private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...
Workers in iron deal with a difficult medium and one which it is impossible to handle with two hands and a simple tool. Brandt, after he became successful in Paris before the War, had a large factory in which he made his graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker...