Word: impetus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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July-Aug.: Germany "saved" by agreement of her creditors (under U. S. impetus) to leave their short term credits "frozen" in the Reich...
...about the widespread laxness with which most American undergraduates consider, or fail to consider, international affairs. For years the United States in its diplomatic policy has considered herself in a state of "Splendid isolation." At the present time, changes in the financial structure of the world have given impetus to the idea that perhaps America is not so isolated a place after...
...codified by an intermediate agency and passed on to industry as needed. As long ago as 1901, far-sighted Dr. Stratton saw this coming need and met it splendidly by creating the United States Bureau of Standards, which he left in 1923, an organization of a thousand workers. The impetus that Edison gave to American invention, Stratton converted into an effective force in industry. For example, when the supply of German optical glass was cut off during the war, it was the Bureau of Standards that set to work and made a glass the equal of Germany...
...yard line by Crickard, runs by White and Crickard took the ball to the three-yard line from where White carried it over. Wood missed the kick. Another drive down the field a few minutes later in which a twenty-yard run by Crickard was the greatest impetus, another touchdown was scored when the latter went over on a short run. This time Wood's kick was good...
...represent them. Every year they ship some five million fruit trees and plants to all parts of the world. Thirty-five years ago in Iowa they discovered the original Stark Delicious Apple. Each year they discover new and better fruit. It was their Golden Delicious Apple which gave first impetus to the Buy- An-Apple Campaign to help the unemployed...