Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennsylvania's lone Senator, haggard David A. Reed of Pittsburgh, helped answer the first question by admitting that Mr. Moore had asked him to use his influence with President Coolidge. It also became known that William Randolph Hearst was planning to sell three of his gumchewer sheetlets-the Mirror (New York), Advertiser (Boston) and American (Baltimore)-to Mr. Moore. Perhaps Mr. Hearst helped persuade President Coolidge to please his customer. If Publisher Hearst has such influence with President Coolidge, it may well mean that the latter's disinclination to another nomination is decreasingly adamant...
Planes rise slowly with a heavy load, requiring long (and expensive) landing fields. W. R. Turnbull, Canadian, announced last week that he had invented a successful variable pitch propeller, by the use of which planes can rise more quickly, can even back up. The angle of the blades on his propeller may be changed while in motion, thereby affecting the strength of his motor like a shift of gears on an automobile. The Canadian Air Force tested with optimism...
...scientists this despatch lacked professional interest. Such an operation, although delicate and demanding high skill in the use of fine knives, had been done previously and with relative frequency. But rarely before had human interest been keyed to so lofty a pitch...
...Lowell seems to think that the main function of the American high school is to send its pupils to college. . . . Our objective is not to train a chosen few for higher education, but to prepare all our students for American conditions of life. . . . The, only tests which the colleges use in determining the fitness of a boy are intellectual tests. ... A Leopold or a Loeb could pass them easily...
...There is no use in your trying to train your pupils for leadership. The graduates of our old high schools are out playing golf while the real leaders who never saw the inside of a high school are herding the voters to the polls...