Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be taught to determine the central idea, to recognize the major supports of that central idea, to rate at their proper value all the varied factors in its development. Pupils who have followed the method of evaluation in a methodical way will not be indifferent to opportunities which allow them to exercise and reveal their powers, whether those opportunities be offered in the recitation hour or in the examination period. The examination, viewed in the light, is for the pupils a friendly and silent insurance against unrecognized merit--as well as a warning against scant daily preparation
...read the report of the Society's subcommittee No. 31, "On Wind Bracing in Steel Buildings." To be safe, said Professor Young, a builder must brace his skyscraper for a wind pressure of 20 Ib. per sq. ft. for the first 500 ft. of height. Then he must allow for an increase of 2 Ib. per sq. ft. in each additional 100 ft. of height. The highest wind velocity Mr. Young and his subcommittee found was at the top of Mt. Washington, N. H. where the wind blew 186 m.p.h. A skyscraper built atop Mt. Washington would have...
...animal-act man. Roofer McHugh has at various times boarded lions, camels, zebras, elephants, kangaroos, snakes, bears, horses, dogs. He charges by the space they occupy. Room for small animals costs 50¢ per day. Elephants take up three times as much space as their total area because keepers must allow for trunk-swinging. An elephant's quarters cost from...
...enter no less than three planes each -which finally they did. Last week, to the incalculable embarrassment of the Royal Aero Club, the MacDonald Government announced it would provide no funds for the team or for the race, which was to be held over The Solent; nor would it allow Royal Air Force planes and pilots (the winners in 1929) to take part. Reason: The event does not justify spending the required $400,000 in these hard times. Result: The Aero Club and the civil aircraft industry face the whole task of raising the funds and building three racing planes...
...swell, pinching tender feet, when wet weather approaches. By using special tanning materials, he proved to shoe manufacturers that this foot-squeeze can be reduced two-thirds. He also demonstrated to shoemen that by proper tanning they could make a shoe waterproof from the outside, at the same time allow perspiration to evaporate from the inside 80% as fast as from a bare foot. After devising methods for measuring resilience, porosity, density of leather, he organized Properties & Uses of Leather, a national committee to study the foot comfort of U. S. citizens...