Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented to President Herbert Hoover, engineer, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Said President Hoover addressing his professional colleagues: "In solving problems of government we have need for a large leavening of the engineering knowledge and engineering attitude of mind. . . . They are unsolvable without the fundamental engineers' approach to truth...
...capital of Finland is Helsingfors) recently the Civic Council decreed the total suppression of "horn nuisance," made it a misdemeanor for motorists to give audible signs of their approach...
Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. There are two schools of thought about Shakespearean productions. One holds that unless their splendors approach perfection, it is better to stay home and read the plays. The other insists that the great Shakespearean characters were meant to be seen and heard, that anyone who resists their appearance in the flesh, even though that flesh be pocked with imperfections, can be no true fancier of the drama...
Aspirants for the two teams will practice together early in the season. They have at their disposal two large greens which the H. A. A. has recently installed on Soldiers Field to serve as practice ground for approach shots, and a number of memberships which the Athletic Association has purchased at Belmont Springs...
...Slosson predicted that crop trees, which grow at the rate of 10% per year for the first 15 years and at the rate of 4% as they approach maturity, will never be allowed to reach their full growth. When they are allowed to mature, only 50% of them is used at the sawmill. Sapling forests will be harvested-perhaps by Paul Bunyanesque mowing machines-and put through a process which will reduce their fibres to a mossy mat; then remolded, remade into wood, of any dimension, any hardness. This process is now being used in Mississippi to manufacture "Masonite" from...