Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sculptor John Gregory of Manhattan launched upon a vision of what architects and allied artists would accomplish: "The nation will be engrossed in art. Streets will lose their present character and become canyons of brass and color. They will be designed in units rather than as collections of buildings...
...these things Dr. Knowles would accomplish by means of a relay. A relay is an electromagnetic device in which the opening or closing of a circuit causes the opening or closing of a more powerful circuit. The ordinary relay will control a current only 10,000 times greater than the current that controls it. Dr. Knowles's new relay?a tube type, containing neon or argon gas?would control a current about 100,000,000 times as great as its controlling current. Photoelectrically adjusted, it could be operated by passing shadows...
Foreign Financing. At Rome Dictator Mussolini watched the sale in Manhattan last week of $30,000,000 City of Rome bonds. He wants the money to accomplish his housing schemes and to finance some public utilities. (The U. S. has loaned somewhat more than a billion dollars during each of the past four years to foreign governments, municipalities, industries. Last week the cities of Milan, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade were preparing specifications for U. S. loans...
...though he is careful to wear no distinguishing mark on his uniform, Chiang is a conqueror of dominating mien, not a comradely Bolshevik backslapper. He has publicly disavowed Bolshevism; and he is much more dangerous to the Great Powers than if he were a Bolshevik. His purpose is to accomplish, by any means (including Bolshevism where prudent) all that is implied by the threadbare but kindling phrase "China for the Chinese...
While thousands of dollars are being solicited for the new Fraternity houses, many people, the fraternity men most of all, are asking themselves what fraternities accomplish. Without attempting to answer this question, it is obvious that if they accept the position of clearing houses of public opinion, there will be no doubt in any one's mind as to their true worth. --Yale Daily News...