Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial-among them, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co., onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois- met to choose a substitute historian, adjourned for a year without being able to do so. They did adopt a budget of $70,000 for 1931, promised newsgatherers that by next November the figures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be complete as far down as the waistcoats, that men would be at work on Abraham Lincoln...
Last week while mine inspectors were investigating the coal mine tragedy in Millfield, Ohio (see p. 18), Daniel Harrington, Chief of the Safety Division of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, urged metal mine operators to adopt a modern method of warning miners of danger. The alarm signal is a penetrating odor. Metal mines (unlike coal mines, which use electrically operated fans) are ventilated by compressed air which travels into the farthest corners at the rate of about 1,000 ft. per sec. Engineers have found that a little odorous liquid injected at the source of the air supply will...
...seventy-five years the movement has been gathering headway. A state will adopt prohibition and then find that it does not work so well as was expected. The resulting disappointment gives the liquor forces their opportunity. The prohibitory law is repealed, but it does not stay repealed. The contrast is convincing. The state generally finds that even though prohibition did not work so well as was expected, it worked better than anything else that the state tried. Some states have enacted, repealed and re-enacted, more than once. In the end the state stays dry. That, in a nutshell...
...Dominions explained that they were not asking Great Britain to adopt the double scheme of abolishing tariff barriers within the Empire and building a tariff wall around it, as has been sensationally urged for more than a year by Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere in the name of "Empire Free Trade" (TIME...
...Harvard faculty. As Mr. Perkins indicates in his article in today's CRIMSON, the process of self development and gradual growth here has led to an impass. If the tutorial system is to continue it must cease to be a nebulous liason between the student and teacher and adopt the definite form of actual intellectual development...