Word: actualize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ditch-Digging & Plumbing. On the record, the odds were in their favor; better than 90% of George Junior Republic's boys & girls have grown up to be useful and successful citizens. Most of the Republic's actual operating expenses are covered by contributions from outside friends, plus $65 monthly tuition paid by the parents and guardians of the majority of the citizens...
...house, the architect will do some or all of the following: help choose a site, help plan the house (or plan it altogether), make drawings so that the prospective owner can see what his house will look like, help choose and deal with the contractor, and supervise the actual construction...
...Army officer told a friend the prices submitted by other bidders, and the officer's friend underbid them to get a contract for $40,375. When the contract was canceled, the bidder was paid $34,343.75, although his "actual costs were only $7-053.13," and the officer went to work for his friend...
Slow & Easy. Regardless of hereditary tendencies, the actual onset of stuttering always seems to be associated with some psychological upset. At the hospital Dr. Greene and the medical staff try to ferret out the cause, then to remove it by teaching "emotional control." The watchword of the institution is Relax. Patients of all ages are taught to relax, by physical training and just lying still-youngsters on mattresses on the floor, adults in underslung steamer chairs. The walls are plastered with signs: "Slow-Easy...
...Havilland has orders for 14 Comets from British Overseas Airways Corp. and British South American Airways Corp but it does not expect to see any of them in actual passenger service for two or three years. Like all new aircraft, the plane must undergo elaborate flight tests. But De Havilland claims to have licked one great problem: noise. The scream of the jet engines is for innocent bystanders only; it is hardly heard on board...