Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The growth of the school was some-what slower than President Eliot had expected, but he was satisfied with its progress, and President Lowell, who from the beginning had been deeply interested, declared an end to the period of experiment by his act in establishing it as an independent faculty...
News that last week pleased many Norwegians was annoying to two groups of U. S. manufacturers, the producers of vegetable and animal oils. With whale oil in direct competition and a lower tariff on it threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's...
"If Prohibition is a noble experiment, then the San Francisco fire and the Galveston flood also should be listed among the noble experiments of our national history."
Surgeon Squibb did not live to see this new experiment. He sold his business some 25 years ago to the late Lowell M. Palmer, potent lime and cement man, who installed his son-in-law, Theodore Weicker, to run it. Later, Mr. Palmer's able son, Carleton H. Palmer...
* Unsuccessful "noble experiment" of the early 19th century (1841?47); a communal Utopia at West Roxbury, Mass, sponsored by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret ("Priestess of Transcendentalism") Fuller and other advanced thinkers of the day.