Word: dented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conning tower, Captain Hans Langsdorff talked quickly and confidently with the navigator. This job should be easy. Overwhelming superiority in armament and firepower. The cruiser-identified now as the Ajax, 6,985 tons-would not dare come in close enough to dent the Spee...
...blow to civic prestige rather than to civic economy. From Newark to Manhattan and Queens will move several thousand airport employes and their families (to be joined by workers from Chicago and other points along the lines). In the business of Newark merchants, their departure will make no discernible dent...
...student and then starts to read on his own account, that is best of all. Courses for the unwilling are necessarily perfunctory, and a single course in an unrelated subject often fails to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every stu- dent who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test it, let us say, by a general examination, that would be quite a different matter...
...enabling them to buy it) as one of the surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been its normal 40% share of such a windfall, that its share was all for steam power (though it makes Diesels, too) at $150,000 an engine, its locomotive sales on New Deal account would...
...numerical standards, the Plan's first year has failed to make a perceptible dent on the shining armor of Harvard indifference to "unifying principles." The program has consisted of four parts: the Bliss Prize examinations; public lectures on aspects of American History; open lectures in the Houses and Union; and weekly discussion groups. Less than twenty men took the prize examinations. The public lectures were heavily attended, but largely by Cambridge ladies in search of culture. The open House lectures, aided by intriguing titles and movies, often drew more than a hundred undergraduates. But at the weekly discussion groups...