Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...some men are bound to be disappointed. But they shouldn't be discouraged. The trouble with most criticism of our colleges is that the man who offers it looks at the institution from an entirely individualistic standpoint. If he's a banker he wants it to turn out capable bankers; if a manufacturer he wants industrial experts; if an editor he wants 99 per cent completed reporters. And so on down the long list. All the while it is forgotten that the college is the most gigantic factory on earth. It is doing a job that would stagger any captain...
...exclusively to words, would be to revive the old bombastic melodrama, where, instead of seeing the hero jump onto his trusty horse and dash madly up and down mountain sides in pursuit of the villain, we should have the heroine gazing out a painted window from which she would turn now and then to gasp to us, "There he goes, there he goes, My God, My God, over a ditch, he's getting nearer, he's getting nearer ... ah.. my brave boy, he's got him, thank...
...frankly grateful to the youngest of our publications for its success in spurring on its older neighbors. If, now the rivalry is removed, the surviving publications can remember that the need for progress and improvement still persists, if the best of the Magazine's contributors can be persuaded to turn their work into tamer but no less hopeful pages, if the Advocate and Lampoon can learn from the virtues as well as the errors of their short-lived competitor, surely its death will not have been in vain...
...service men who did not sign for membership last night may still obtain blanks at the CRIMSON or at the Union, which they should fill out and turn in to David M. Little, Acting Secretary of the Post, at the Union...
...research work of the nitrates division of the Ordnance Department, and in this position has been studying the task of putting the large nitrogen fixation plants in this country in such permanent shape that they can be used in times of peace and will be ready to turn out an adequate supply of nitric acid in case of another...