Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sinclair Lewis for his powerful and vivid art of description and his ability to use wit and humor in the creation of original characters...
...present attitude among student critics of the House Plan is that, despite their former fears, all that has happened is the creation of better opportunities for making social contacts, for furthering friendships between tutors and students, and, in general, for presenting a ground on which previous barriers are modified through the routine of living. It is believed that the unwillingness of the student to sacrifice his traditional freedom will prevent a distinct trend of any kind...
Mormon exhibited its new 16-cylinder creation, of which Marmon Chairman Colonel Howard Marmon is specially proud. It has 210 h.p., will attain 100 m.p.h. Salesmen say it goes ten miles per gallon of gasoline. Production will start early next year, might have been delayed longer had not the 16-cylincer Cadillac come out. The car will sell at around $5,500. Spark and throttle are not on the steering wheel but on the dash. Radiator and gas tank cap are hidden. On the hubcaps the buyer may have either the name of the car or a dash of lightning...
This proposal had a significance deeper than the mere transfer of functions. The Public Health Service in recent years has become more and more important in the Government. Last spring it was strengthened by the creation of the National Institute of Health, which is empowered to accept private donations for research. The medical profession hopes that it will become a department of public health with its chief in the President's Cabinet. In Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, a doctor, other doctors believe they have a powerful advocate...
...thinking of something else when Pallas Athene, mature and fully armed, was born from his ponderous brow. Certainly when Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of the Republican National Committee thought and said: "The party will remain Dry or it will be split" (TIME, Nov. 17) he was not contemplating the creation of a mature, warlike body of Wet Republicans which almost simultaneously appeared. Perhaps instead Mr. Fess was thinking in terms of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals statement fortnight ago: "Any catering to the Wets, any toleration of a suggestion of modification, would light fires of bitter resentment...