Word: impetus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain the movement is gaining much headway, despite the boycotting influence of the powerful financial interests. It gains impetus through the timely advocacy in the British House of Commons by the Rt. Hon. John Wheatley of proposals for arriving "Through Consumption to Prosperity...
...Charlie Cunningham was named on the first. All-American hockey team that the sporting editor of "College Humor" picked. Giddens received honorable mention on this team also.... In the University swimming meet held in the new pool yesterday Harvard's hope for a formidable team next year received considerable impetus when Benton Woods, a Freshman, won the 100-yard free-style in just one second slower than Al Schwartz did in the N. C. S. A. meet on Saturday. The best showing on the whole was made by Freshmen and it may be the Class of 1933 that will give...
...wave of the long fight against cancer, which has been gaining impetus in the past few years, last week reached the U. S. Senate. Grave-faced members of the Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on cancer listened to stories of cancer ravages on the population (over 100,000 a year), possible cures, the need for a national clinic...
...regard to point (2): if it is true that intercollegiate competition is the chief impetus to athletics, then the athletics-for-all policy, Harvard's extensive intra-mural program, and President Lowell's theory of the Greek as opposed to the Roman ideal of athletic competition may all just as well be relegated to the scrap basket. Furthermore the figures on the number of men engaged in intercollegiate sports and those engaged in frankly intramural competition are so convincing on this point that it need scarcely be considered further. In dealing with the class of men to whom only extra...
...historic facts from which spring many of those generalizations which from the fibre of political thought. There is a new understanding that comes with a long perspective; there is a judicious tolerance towards contemporary institutions that grows from a grasp of past usefulness; and there is an impetus to orderly progress in the description and analysis of those present-day adjustments through which perplexed communities aim to regulate the rapid and often extreme transitions that art a phenomenon of modern life. Broadly, the application of these observations to one of America's most distinguished political experiments--the Massachusetts town meeting...