Word: tools
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knock off before 4:30 p.m. They are too busy for drinking, dancing, big-time athletics or campus chitchat (only one-third live in dormitories). Offering no snap courses, Rensselaer strips down even English and Philosophy to their utilitarian bones. English is studied by Rensselaer men primarily as a tool for writing business reports and selling their ideas. Almost their only un-antlike activity is stamp collecting, favorite Rensselaer hobby...
...machine tool industry, which, like aircraft, averages only $200,000,000 a year of business is getting 20% of its domestic orders from U. S. arms spending and 50% from exports (practically all arms). One of the industry's most promising war babies, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., which has an order backlog of $2,200,000 (big for it but a trifle in the national economy) was meanwhile going in the market for eleven times its 1938 earnings, while investors priced ordinary market leader Chrysler at 16 times 1938 earnings...
...that memory or imagination or the reason or the will can be trained as a power." What Dr. Prosser would substitute is "specific education" for the secondary schools, and under this vocationalism he would add to the curriculum such subjects as practice in the use of English as "a tool of communication," business English, current events in economics, wholesome recreation in the community, social amenities and manners and the use of leisure time...
Finding the law "a tool which would be used for religious persecution when more intolerant spirit set in", Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, attacked the statute...
...National Machine Tool Builders' Association announced that its index was up 34 points in December over November...