Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, out this week, devotes its entire issue to this collaboration between science and architecture. One section deals with heat, a vastly complicated subject. Mere control of temperature and humidity is not enough: the air must have the proper amount of movement. The walls of the room must be at the right temperature. A person can have chills in a room with cold walls, even though the air around him is comfortably warm...
Filter Walls. A building's walls and roof used to be considered mere barriers. They might be decorated on the outside, but their main purpose was to keep the weather out. Modern architects think of a wall as a filter between the outside and inside environments. For example, the wall of a factory in a hot climate should reflect outside heat and absorb inside heat, passing as much of it as possible to the outside. In a cold climate, the wall should gather all possible heat from the sunlight, while keeping inside heat from moving out. Modern materials, such...
...move almost unanimously and the men have never been given a chance to express themselves on the subject. It is unlikely that a Student Council poll would show a very strong opinion one way or the other--the average Harvard man would not be too upset by the mere presence of Radcliffe students rustling among the bluebooks...
Steady Ben Hogan, who weighs a mere 137 Ibs., is golf's little wonder. Since the middle of May, he has played in a dozen tournaments, winning nine of them (including the lustrous U.S. Open and the P.G.A.). His average of 69.31 strokes for 76 rounds makes him the likely winner of the Vardon Trophy. He is also the P.G.A.'s top moneymaker, with $32,112 in official prizes. Last week, the P.G.A. announced that radio and press writers, with hardly a moment's hesitation, had voted Hogan "golfer-of-the-year...
...would seem like apt material for a neat Ferber & Kaufman blend of oil & vinegar. The play does have touches of warmth and wit, but most of it is a purely mechanical sponging of the emotions, or a frantic clutching at comic and dramatic straws. The characters are too often mere plushy stage furniture, exploited rather than explored. Only Refugee Actress Darvas (wife of famed Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar) possesses real rather than synthetic dignity and charm...