Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brother Maze, please leave your address here...
...would be a simple matter to build some elevated crossings over the maze of intersections known as Harvard Square, with a few chutes to the subway station as finishing touches. Not only would it provide work for the unemployed, but best of all the worry-wrinkles on the foreheads of our politicians would subside when they found a new way to spend some thousands of dollars. Lest some be inclined to scoff at this proposal, the new historic example of the use of P. W. A. funds in a mid-western city is cited. With much labor and expense...
...keenest mechanical brain in the world, a total of 6.000 persons one day last week trooped down into a basement of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia. There they found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name-a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer table" they saw a metal arm bearing a stylus make...
...first week, the Government spent most of last week plodding through the maze of Andrew Mellon's security portfolios, brokerage accounts, private ledgers, holding companies, in an effort to prove that by juggling his securities among them he had fraudulently established the losses which he claimed in his 1931 tax return (TIME, March 4). All facts & figures came from Mr. Mellon's longtime private secretary, Howard M. Johnson, a frail, grey little man seated pale and trembling behind a stack of ledgers and account books. In the handsome, high-ceilinged courtroom, with only a scattering of typical courtroom...
...period, as Professor Haring describes it, is so twisted a maze of civil warfare and international dispute that condensation of the story has been very difficult. Wisely the author has confined himself to a survey of only the more important nations, such as the A B C powers, with more detailed investigations into such major issues as the control of the Rio de in Plat and the balance of power on the Pacific coast...