Word: impetus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant that the final impetus in Harvard's steady progress toward a position in the vanguard of world education has come during the short life of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The work of this group of interested alumni is characterized not only by generous contributions, but by the wise direction of these funds into useful channels. Typical are the Lionel de Jersey scholarship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the appointment of an athletic director some years...
...about San Francisco except the colorful life of Italian fishermen along the waterfront, Helen Wills's triumph, achieved in the distant and mysteriously exciting East, minimized her own victory. It also opened vistas of a glamorous future and Helen Jacobs decided to emulate it. What gave this decision impetus was that when Helen Wills's coach at last arranged a game between the two girls. Helen Wrills won 6-0 in seven minutes. What gave the decision its subsequent importance was the odd chance that Helen Wills went on to become the greatest woman player in the world...
Your complete article and photograph of Father Coughlin makes a distinct impression on me (TIME, July 27). One is "Oh what patience has our Holy Father at Rome." Second is that when any man calls our President a liar, especially a man in high places, he distinctly gives impetus to law-breaking and Communism...
...There were those who still thought that eloquent Mr. Vandenberg would have made a better first mate for colorless Mr. Landon. Fact remained that, excepting the Landonites, no one had worked so hard, nor got up so much steam and sympathy, as Colonel Knox & friends. The impetus of their bloc could now be merged intact with the Landon movement...
...among the numerous places where Assembly meetings were held, the most ubiquitous Grouper was A. S. Loudon Hamilton, the tall, burly, pink-cheeked Scot who is second in com mand in the Group's world army. It was in his Oxford rooms that the movement received its first impetus in 1921. Subsequently a footballer at Colgate University, Grouper Hamilton married, begat two children, continued to live on a basis of faith without ever accepting a salaried position. Said he last week: "It takes God's guidance to make a Scot accept a situation like that...