Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crisler System. The intricate system that Chappuis fits into at Michigan is designed by a man who likes to construct puzzles. At 48, greying Herbert Orin ("Fritz") Crisler has the easy, competent air of a skilled physician (he once studied medicine at the University of Chicago). An ardent admirer of Robert E. Lee's battle strategy, he tries to imitate it: feinting at one point, hitting another...
...remedy these defects, the researchers set about to construct a hearing aid of their own. In the course of their work they discovered that "the electro-acoustical properties best suited to one type of hearing loss are those best suited to all, or nearly...
...policy" is often the sum of routine, day-by-day decisions. It is often dictated by circumstances which offer no alternative often the result of a chance decision or of inertia and unwillingness to take the most difficult path. But Mr. Wallace, as a private citizen, were to construct a policy it would have to be built without access to certain confidential material, without the impetus of immediate, necessary decisions, and with no aids other than common sense, a conception of what is just, and a facile imagination...
...other possibility was to construct a chain-reacting pile made of uranium combined with some substance to slow down the neutrons shot out by its fissioning atoms. Theory indicated that carbon or heavy water would serve as this "moderator." The U.S. used carbon (graphite), but the Germans decided it would not do. This was a bad mistake; it led them to use heavy water, which could be produced only by a slow and costly process...
...only question was how, and on what terms. Nanking's immediate needs were higher than ever. Inflation ran unchecked, her armies were in danger of losing most of Manchuria, popular support was at a low ebb. Money was desperately needed to rebuild railroads and port facilities, to construct power plants. Nanking's own estimates of her needs ran to $2½ billion...