Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practical and scientific knowledge of agriculture second to none. His understanding of the devices and desires of farmers was gained at first hand?in the days when his father took to the soil in Adair County, Iowa, and later when, as a youth of 20, he was obliged to interrupt his course at the Agricultural College, at Ames, and put in five years raising corn and hogs on one of his father's tenantless farms...
...there are various reasons for these actions. In the first place the excessive number of automobiles are a fire trap and a fire risk. In case of a fire on one of the various side streets off Mt. Auburn Street not only would the automobiles parked there by night interrupt the operations of the fire companies, but also they would be a source of danger themselves, due to the gasoline which they carry. This has resulted in greatly increased insurance rates, and as the University owns a great deal of property in the vicinity, it means the loss of money...
...loans to earn more money, and that it indicated that the Reserve authorities did not expect higher money rates this Fall to any considerable extent. This latter conjecture is important if true; a sudden rise in money rates would not only prove a real shock to security traders, but interrupt much foreign and domestic financing, including perhaps several railroad mergers now under discussion...
...growth of this practice would doubtless interrupt steady work for a degree within one university, but it would certainly contribute to a broading of vision. No college faculty ever contains all of the men under whom the student wishes to study, but by facilitating exchanges, American universities may at some future time turn out more scholars and fewer degree holders...
...intimates with a case of oranges. All he has to do to secure absolute privacy is to turn the sign to "Go" if that is the word selected to indicate that an intellectual quarantine has been established--and no one, save only the grossest trespasser, will venture to interrupt. The engineers it seems have hit upon a most desirable, almost indispensable invention. It is really difficult to understand how undergraduates have managed for so long to do without...