Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secure an elementary knowledge of a modern language, President Conant suggests, in his annual report, the abolition of this practice and the requirement of a reading knowledge either of French or German. The wisdom of discarding an elementary knowledge of a language, in view of its worthlessness as a tool for research or appreciation of a literature, cannot be questioned. Why the Classics should no longer be required or allowed to be substituted for a modern language is not so evident...
...small section of the Recovery Act, authorizing the President to forbid shipments of "hot oil" in interstate commerce. It did not invalidate NRA codes, or even the Petroleum Code. Secretary Ickes prepared at once to shift his efforts to control production by using the oil code as his tool. He added however: "I imagine the code's constitutionality will be tested next...
...rate of 2,000,000 per year. But Chevrolet has outsold Ford in six of the past eight years, and the last million-car year at River Rouge was 1930. Last year Mr. Ford had a head start over Chevrolet, which was delayed by the tool & die strike. Yet in combined truck and passenger car sales Chevrolet again nosed out Ford. The most famed U. S, industrial box score (estimated for 1934 on eleven-month domestic sales) reads as follows...
Sadly, the attempts at mighty characterization fall short of fulfillment, the whole theme is much tool superficially treated and vast as the film is in its sentimental aim, "Our Dally Bread" turns out to be no epoch-making work...
...prime tool Dr. Gesell chose the cinecamera. Money was forthcoming from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1926, again in 1930 from the Rockefeller Foundation. Tactful emissaries scoured New Haven for young recruits. Hundreds of thousands of feet of cinema film were exposed. From this immense store the picture sequences for the Atlas were carefully selected, each picture made from a single cinema film frame...