Word: interpreting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...auditorium. His audience had gathered at the Army's request. Though most Hawaiian Japanese speak English, many of these did not. So they sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next-of-kin of a Japanese-American boy killed in Italy...
...step in a technique. They are not intended as a reward for the collective achievement of a corporate research organization. To give patents for such routine experimentation ... is to use the patent law ... to create monopolies for corporate organizers instead of men of inventive genius. We are bound to interpret the patent law ... to reward individual and not group achievement...
...part of the broad policies to be followed, the Committee recommended that: 1) war surpluses should be sold abroad, if necessary to avoid glutting the U.S. market; 2) the Federal Government relax "traditional [audit] rules on payments," interpret regulations liberally to speed contracts settlements...
...glue. If Hitler had not dominated the plan for attack on Russia, the German Army might have used an adaptation of the old Schlieffen strategy offered by General Marcks. The Marcks plan was to prepare a tremendous mass concentration in the Balkans, which the Russians might logically interpret as a move against Turkey. Then, without warning, the concentration could have been hurled against the Ukraine, with an ultimate wheeling turn toward Moscow up the valleys of the Dnieper and the Don. The Marcks plan would have resulted in a gigantic concentration of German strength at one point. But Hitler insisted...
...footsteps, we know Easy is a misnomer. We should be company Dog. Our predecessors, now in Company Dog, in rare Naval style "gummed up the works" for us . . . too much entertainment at smokers too little study, failure to learn to read the face of a clock or even to interpret bells, too much sack duty. At any rate the powers that be took a look at present company D and reconsidered the schedule. Close upon our arrival at N.T.S. and still in the rain came scuttlebutt to the effect that the course would no longer be five months in length...