Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 180,000. Leonidas, king of Sparta, met him with only 7,000 men at Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf. Hearing that a big detachment of Persians had found a way around the pass, Leonidas sent 5,000 soldiers to head them off. Xerxes then effected a great slaughter against the remaining Thermopylae defenders...
...Thermopylae, hoping to find some tangible trace of the battle. Last week they reported success-spears, arrows and other weapons, crusted with rust after lying 2,419 years where the warriors of Thermopylae dropped them. They were buried in silt deposited by the River Spercheius, which has enlarged the pass from a bottleneck 14 yards wide to an alluvial plain one and one-half to three miles across...
...invented by Henry Bessemer got going and steel became much cheaper. In Bessemer converters-little changed after 70 years-a powerful blast of air is forced through molten pig iron as it lies in the converter's capacious belly. The air oxidizes impurities which form a slag or pass off as gases through the converter mouth. After the slag has formed, the steel is poured into molds to make ingots...
...life (including Johns Hopkins' famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted and browbeat me on the campus...
There are some 17,000 Certified Public Accountants in the U. S. To win the coveted initials C.P.A. they had to pass rigorous examinations in accounting. Beyond that, their functions are virtually unregulated by law. Their methods of auditing and analyzing a corporation's balance sheet are their own, the developments of over 400 years of practice. The U. S. public first realized that these methods were not always perfect when the McKesson & Robbins scandal broke last December. How was it possible, the average investor asked, for $18,000,000 in fictitious inventories to deceive seasoned accountants...