Word: dovetailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from one science to another, to show the unity of the scientific attitude, purpose and method. It was to be a scientific study of science - an encyclopedia of "Metascience." Says Dr. Neurath of his project: "[It] so aims to integrate the scientific disciplines, so to unify them, so to dovetail them together, that advances in one will bring about advances in the others...
There are definite needs, Alfaro said, which if carried out would make for organization of the instruments of peace. First of all it is necessary to dovetail the existing treaties and amendments. Enlargement of the scope of arbitration and the founding of an American Court of international justice. The special needs of the Americas he said necessitated a court outside of the World Court...
...waited almost a year came to pass. Nobles, diplomats, artists and high society packed into La Scala to hear singers retell the story of Lucretia's rape, the people's revolt and the eventual founding of the Roman Republic. Composer Ottorino Respighi had made his new opera dovetail scrupulously with Livy's 2,000-year-old account. As usual in his later work he had been sparing with orchestral effects, taken pains that voices should nearly everywhere prevail. Many pronounced Lucrezia the best opera Respighi ever wrote. The audience of 3,000 cheered and cheered. Conductor Marinuzzi...
...hours of the Dictator's speaking time he devoted 40 minutes to reacting in his Asiatic way to foreign criticism of the new Constitution. It is a document in which many of the original world revolutionary principles of Lenin & Trotsky are toned down to dovetail into Stalin's practical scheme of encouraging Communist parties to unite with Socialist and other parties throughout the world. Reds thus may foment revolutions and capture administrations from within against which, as pure Communists, they could only have struggled from without but inevitably they themselves will become somewhat watered down and followers...
...first play, "Gold Eagle Guy" by promising. It has vigor and dramatic power enough, but as an epic it lacks point. Guy Button, skilfully portrayed by J. Edward Bromberg, stands forth in the round, but his character is not of adequate significance to dovetail insaneness of pageantry. The number of minor characters is so bewilderingly large that mention of their respective merit is here impossible. But the "atmosphere" scenes are well and convincively done. The settings, designed by Donald Oenslager, elicited applause that was justly due, and the richness of the costumes bespeaks a rather optimistic attitude toward the play...