Word: hew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prognostications for 1936 and far beyond the same set of simple facts also served. Year-end reviews are largely newspaper promotional efforts limited in size only by the amount of advertising available. As publishing phenomena they are not confined to the lay press, but trade journals and business dailies hew closer to the record, indulge in less unadulterated opinion. Preparations for fat year-end business supplements often begin two months in advance, though small news papers may buy a canned review in mat form from United Press for $3. Except for a few charts and tables, however, most...
...ground school courses, primarily for men who already know hew to fly, are to be given by the Flying Club at the East Boston Airport. These two courses will cover the fundamentals of navigation and meteorology...
...Odium's theories hew close to the British tradition. Last week, apparently satisfied that "the upward trend could be seen with greater clarity." the young, sandy-haired financier made U. S. financial history by offering'to underwrite two big issues of new Paramount Publix Corp. securities. Under the film company's plan of reorganization, already approved by security-holders and the courts, Paramount's old stockholders will be offered a smaller amount of new shares in exchange for their present holdings and also the right to buy more. The Atlas offer, which Paramount swiftly accepted...
...basis of Japan's foreign policy has not changed one inch. She is bound to make herself master of the Far East, peaceably if possible, by force if necessary. But the Japanese are a polite people who search constantly for a foreign minister who car hew to the line his country has chosen and at the same time avoid enraging foreign powers by imprudent statements. It is the despair of Japan's diplomats that there is no language that can explain what Japan is about to do that will not also inflame the foreign Press. Premier Saito...
...faculty member, teaching male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called, not ''students'' as in other colleges, but by the fine old medieval guild word, "apprentice." Last week Architect Wright had done something about his school...