Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization is just as effective. Our committee on National Affairs makes a thorough study of the referundum, taking into consideration the arguments both pro and con. Their resolution is then placed before the Board of Directors made up of 21 leading men in the community who in turn thoroughly investigate the question at hand and pass on it accordingly. Theses men are delegated by the membership of the organization to represent them just as legislators represent the public. Generally these various boards of directors are made up of the outstanding business men of the city...
...keeping up-to-date their factory plans and personnel for munitions-making. It would be not only just but wise for the U. S. to give "educational" orders to such industries. During a war, the U. S. would depend upon civilian arsenals almost entirely. The U. S. arsenals could turn out only 10% of the tanks and artillery necessary; only 1% of the ammunition...
Moreover, Prince Ras Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
Genetics. President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan advised biological investigators to turn more and more from their habitual and comparatively easy study of insects to the study of mammals. There are, said he, at least five great divisions of genetic problems which are capable of successful investigation in laboratory mammals, viz., the genetic bases for size & growth, fertility & sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination...
Celebrity. The comedy of manners degenerates every so often into the comedy of "rackets." The comedy of manners satirizes anonymously on a broad plane of society. Its characters are types, such as the midwives of Plantees and Oscar Wilde's cookie-eaters. When audiences tire of types, satirists turn and flay contemporary figures in the professions...