Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Obvious was the boost given the Navy's cruiser program now before Congress (see p. 10). Less obvious, equally welcome, was the boost given to the proposed second interoceanic canal through Nicaragua by a sea-level route requiring few if any locks. As the war-game neared its final phase, New Jersey's Senator Edge went on the air to urge passage of his bill to appropriate $150,000 for a Nicaraguan survey. Said he: "In the event of war, two canals would be of inestimable value...
...difficult to accept the Noble Lady's opinions as final," said Miss Wilkinson, "for we all know that her own children had every care that money can give them...
...field and geologists and others interested in the development of natural resources have steadily been working on the improvement of methods for estimating the nature of bodies concealed in the crust of the earth. No methods have been found or are likely to be found that will give a final and complete answer to this problem. encountered in the complex conditions that exist in nature, but with constant study more and more ways of scanning critical evidence of various sorts are being developed, so that today one "guess" about what is ahead of the pick is likely to be considerably...
...result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound." By advancing in this concluding paragraph practically the same major premise advocated by Mr. Pond, the Council has shielded its main suggestion somewhat from...
...cliques and small social whirlpools of any sort within the separate "houses", while their whole purpose would be the encouragement of intellectual endeavor as small groups with common cultural interests. As the President of the CRIMSON describes the House plan, the group must "compete with the centrifugal attractions of final clubs, activities, varsity athletics, cars, girls, Boston and New York...