Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modest to the point of bashfulness, Professor Gosset explained to last week's newsmen that his appendix exploit was merely a classroom demonstration of two maxims he tries to impress upon all his students...
...knows the Arctic as well as the palms of his slim, steady hands, off one of which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a finger one day when his plane was forced down. For several years he piloted Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting uncharted lines of magnetic force, to Spitsbergen (TIME, April 30, 1928). Last year Eielson flew Sir Hubert from Deception Island over a section of Antarctica (TIME...
...lands and resources are also the ones who are likely to have large increases [in population] for the next few decades," and "never has any previous civilization shown a rapacity that compares even remotely to our own." For instance: "The question of whether any white people should hold and exploit a tropical country with native labor as is now being done is going to become one of the burning questions. . . ." Segregation or wholesale deportation are poor remedies. Assimilation of the few by the many is more logical. But race friction usually hinders assimilation. Thus closes the vicious circle making another...
...satisfied, he became a director for Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long to make them, spent huge sums, worked his casts to exhaustion. Last year, after finishing The Wedding March, a dull picture in spite of a budget so huge that the producers did not exploit the figures, he started to direct Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly. Limited strictly as to time and funds, he was removed when he exceeded his limitations. Now he is a good actor again...
...Federal Government through the years had doled out its domain to its citizens to homestead, to the railroads to develop new territory, to prospectors to exploit. For the asking and a promise to live there homesteaders could, and still can, get 160 acres, stockmen 640 acres. In 1902 when most of the good farming land was gone the U. S. began reclaiming the desert by irrigation. Today some 600,000 persons cultivate 3,200,000 acres of land reclaimed at a cost...