Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small office two blocks from the University of Chicago campus, shiny-pated. khaki-clad Count Alfred Korzybski toys with an odd little implement. He calls it the "structural differential." It consists of a series of plates punched full of holes (see cut). Like scientists who make models of atomic structures, Count Alfred, who is head of the Institute of General Semantics, expects important developments from his implement. With it and the theory it illustrates, he hopes to wipe out mankind's time-worn thinking habits, revolutionize its educational systems, create a sane new world. Last week he reported progress...
Theory of General Semantics is exceedingly complex (Korzybski calls it a "non-Aristotelian system"), but its method of instruction is simple. Chief instrument of training is the "structural differential." By handling this implement, students (who call it "the semantic rosary") learn graphically that there are different, "nonidentical" orders of meaning connected with each basic phenomenon. Thus, one plate in the implement represents a phenomenon (e.g., an apple), and the holes in it represent its infinite number of scientific characteristics, some perceptible to man, some unknown. Linked to that is a disc representing the physical, perceptible object, and to that...
John L. Lewis' political implement, Labor's Non-Partisan League, published for the benefit of Labor voters a list of Congressmen coming up for renomination and re-election this year. Rated on this roster, chiefly by their votes on wage-hour control, were: A) aggressive friends of labor; B) passive friends of labor; C) borderliners whose fate might be decided by local circumstances; D) aggressive enemies of labor. Obviously this invitation to turn out the rascally Ds suited C.I.O.'s program of direct political action and tied in well with Administration strategy...
...fighting on either side, eventual withdrawal. There was a chance that this agreement actually was an agreement-for three days. Then, as has often happened in both factions, the Soviet Union soon found "practical" obstacles to put in the way of the plan's execution. She would not implement it with an appropriation...
...Announcement by the U. S. Treasury that it would immediately but gradually begin to implement desterilization of gold by redeeming maturing Treasury bills at the rate of $50,000,000 a week...