Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since 1029 body framing has dropped from $3 to 30? in labor cost, hand finishing from $3 to 20?, trimming from $12 to $4. If used full time, an automatic buffer in a hardware plant can displace...
...looked to business as a field for the absorption of his surplus energies. The proper business for a king was, of course, the development of an overseas empire. It mattered little to Leopold that the world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium, a buffer state, was in no position to carve out a dominion in Africa. Leopold worked well in twilight zones; he knew how to make weakness into strength when he had strong neighbors who were jealous of each other. In the end he possessed himself of the Congo because Bismarck...
...General Johnson's greatest services to the President was as a buffer for criticism. Even as he was bowing out of the picture, his enemies-and he had many -took many a resentful parting shot. "It ought to have happened nine months ago!" cried North Dakota's Senator Nye, who had quarreled with the General about NRA hardships on small businessmen. "Military man that he was," grumbled old Clarence Darrow, whose three NRA reports marked the start of the reorganization movement, "he went at it like an Army mule driver and when he reached...
...embroiled in a war. Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying to set up a buffer state in Eastern Siberia. This would be difficult, because the population of this state would be almost entirely Russian...
...officers of the University who come into daily contact with the News Office, but to all those who value Harvard's reputation in the public eye. Mr. Nichols was the first of a long line of publicity directors to conceive of his position as something more than a buffer to a supersensitive group of officials in University Hall. The value to the University of having a man handle its publicity who enjoys the confidence of the organs through which that publicity is disseminated, is too obvious to need emphasis. Mr. Nichols won that confidence in the face of a natural...