Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan system saves the teacher from being whirled around endlessly on this Ixion wheel. Since the student is examined directly on only one year's work, and since he is given much leeway for his answers under the New Plan, the teacher has much more freedom in giving preparation for New Plan Examinations. Under this, the development of the student in the class is the paramount factor in obtaining entrance to college. The teacher does not have to be a vending machine of examination answers. Instead of kowtowing to an omnipotent Board, he may follow his star. To quote...
...Begin now to prepare yourselves to take an active part in your government, to prove that our government is a practicable one because its leading citizens are willing to put their shoulders to the wheel," Hon. Leverett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, told the class of 1936, assembled for the first time as a body in the Large Dining Room of the Freshman Union last night...
...blue Buick flew along the road toward Plymouth, and at its wheel sat a stately, dignified man, gray but hale, taking obvious delight in the throbbing power he controlled. The needle on the swank dial crept from left to right, from sixty to seventy, perhaps toward that exhilarating eighty. It was then fate intervened, and when the big Buick drew to a stop by the kerb the policeman's scathing tongue had respect for neither the distinguished lawyer or famed administrator that were one in the stately, dignified...
...Mayor Bulganin spared no technical details, told at dry length what kind of motors will speed what kind of cars over what kind of rails with what consumption of kilowatts. "We are using the London type of deep-sunk tubes," he stated. "They will radiate like spokes of a wheel from our Central Subway Station which is now partly finished. The first train should traverse the first spoke late...
...Knights of Columbus affairs. But his chief interest is fish, the men and machines which process them, the men and vessels which bring them in. There is a Pew in the chairmanship of the company, a Gorton on the board, but Gorton-Pew's man at-the-wheel is its president and general manager...