Word: opinioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile Soviet authorities were preparing to spend a million rubles in the development of the Perm fields. There are no differences of opinion between the Russian government and the Russian petroleum industry. Russian oil is produced by about six Russian companies and one Japanese company with a Russian concession. The 1928 output was twelve million metric tons (26,455,200,000 lb.) Distribution and selling is handled by a government syndicate, headed by G. I. Sokolnikov. Oilman Sokolnikov, as Soviet Commissar for Finance, was famed as the financier who put Russian currency on a gold basis...
...United States, but once her prosperity is restored to its pre-war condition it may prove no easy task to enforce the provisions of any treaty made at this time. Laudable as is the achievement of the delegates in bringing a settlement out of the sharp divergences of opinion that preceded the conference, no human agency can forsee the needs of half a century to come, and the most optimistic supporter of the conference can hardly hope that it has closed the problem permanently...
...next problem is, what sort should this guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never...
This statement produced varied effects. It was hardly more than the Second Dawes Committee delegates had expected, but in many quarters it produced a sentiment of discouragement, an opinion that the U. S. persisted in being "timidly aloof...
...this opinion he was joined by the late great George Westinghouse. Both counselled against attempting to make and transmit Alternating Current, despite its comparative cheapness. Mr. Westinghouse had an alternative idea-Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...