Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work for the crews will consists at first of rowing in the tank and on the machines. Most of the men will row only three times a week. In the morning from 10 until 1 o'clock individual instruction will be given any crew candidates who is in need of some special corrections...
...appearance this week of the University Register is a February fulfillment of a need that was felt before the advent of November hours. The lack of any such directory to the University was unpleasantly manifest last year, a deficiency remedied by Student Council provision...
Congress used to be called "Government by Committee." The Senate's Committee on Committees, invented in 1912, was a staple for the political japes of a generation not yet extinct. But now the system has been perfected into "Government by Inquiry." Whenever a "crying need" or "shameful scandal" is discovered, the nation's legislators (especially in the Senate) go through motions which notify the coun- try that (though the matter may be handled by one of the 79 committees which Congress keeps standing for all purposes) the treatment will not be mere routine efficiency but something extra-special and significant...
...much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent?if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...
Values of the experiment: (i) Train crews need not signal one another with lanterns, flags or whistle toots; brakemen need not dogtrot over moving car tops to deliver messages to engineers; (2) Train dispatchers can give orders without stopping trains; (3) The voice supplements automatic train signals...