Word: impetus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic development that resulted from the foundations laid under King Ferdinand's reign have received further impetus under the energetic guidance of King Carol II. In spite of political and economic unsettlement in Europe, for many years past Rumania has enjoyed a balanced budget and a favorable trade balance. Industrial unrest has been reduced to a minimum. Indeed, the working people have little cause for complaint. Under the social legislation enacted more than 15 years ago, collective bargaining and paid vacations are guaranteed to industrial workers. Moreover, the remarkable industrial development of the country has practically eliminated unemployment...
...present ruling is founded on a false principle. It assumes that a man taking courses in a subject remotely connected with his own field of concentration will automatically correlate the two fields. In a majority of cases this is impossible without the extra impetus of tutorial, examinations, or written papers combining both subjects. Without such assistance he is very apt to consider the courses merely as two completely unrelated entities. Evidently the division thinks it has solved the problem of correlation by making sure that a concentrator understands one of two particular methods outside his field. Actually he is only...
...problems which have occupied modern architects, the most unpretentious is the most difficult: how to give urban people decent places to live. In the U. S., the Federal Housing Administration has given great impetus to individual home builders, stimulating architects to think in terms of small-house design. Newly available to them and the public last week were two important sources of light...
...exploits of New York City's vigorous young Racketbuster Thomas Edmund Dewey* not only gave impetus to a new cinema vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick...
...prove it, he authorized a warmly pro-Jewish statement. Excerpts: "I believe that the United States cannot fail at this time to maintain its traditional role as a haven for the oppressed. . . . Because of their special adaptability . . . [the Jews] would offer to the business of this country a new impetus at a time like this, when it is badly needed. ... I am confident that the time is near when there will be so many jobs available in this country that the entrance of a few thousand Jews, or other immigrants, will be negligible...