Word: turned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Central Powers were crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...
...University is proud of its Astronomical Observatory, and proud of those who have devoted themselves to the exacting, ill-paid work of searching the dark reaches of the infinite for knowledge which the world will sooner or later turn to account, and for which it will be supremely though mutely, grateful...
...with the situation. Also the Carranza government is clever enough to see the affect of American aggression on the European powers. Already suspicious of our motives because of the blind folly of the Senate in failing to ratify the Peace Treaty, any show of force on our part would turn their suspicion into hatred and fear. Moreover, the imprisonment of the United States consular agent, Jenkins, raises a nice question of international law and of the power of the Mexican executive to free Jenkins from the jurisdiction of the Puebla state court. The whole affair gives great opportunity for subtle...
...disastrous lack of teachers for the schools of the country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
...small 12-volt electric motor operated by a storage battery connected through a geared reduction to a Bijur automatic screw drive. On the end of the screw shaft is cut an 8-tooth pinion which meshes with a larger gear on the propellor shaft. The starter will turn over the engine at 40 to 50 r.p.m. with a consumption of 100 to 110 amperes and a maximum of 1300 foot-pounds is available on the engine crank shaft, for breaking loose a cold engine. When the engine begins firing the screw drive automatically demeshes from the crank shaft gearing...