Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early Christian architecture was a product of the need and the environment. The disintegration of the Roman empire was accompanied by a weakening of classical prestige, while a young and vigorous religion was working out its own ideals and standards...
...youths have so long been accustomed to a paternalistic attitude on the part of the institutions that they might fail to realize the benefits accruing from the suggested period of research at their own will. In English universities, where the plan is now in use, it has been the product of gradual evolution, and the students there have been brought to a gradual understanding of the importance of properly utilizing their pre-examination respite. To suddenly thrust such a change on the college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result in its failure...
...senses in the care of the sick when he has been brought up in the present pass-the-buck atmosphere of the ordinary hospital mechanism for the diagnosis and care of the sick. The more work done by the student and the less by the teacher, the better the product. It is not what we know but what we actually use that counts in medical practice. Don't measure education in the terms of talk. Get that."? Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University...
Credit for the perfection of "dry ice" belongs largely to Chemist Pierre E. Haynes, now with the Dry Ice Corp. of New York. General Carbonic and Liquid Carbonic are other corporations now making "safe dry," a form of "dry ice," which became a commercial product in 1925. To make solid carbon dioxide: invert a tank of liquid carbon dioxide under pressure, open the valve. The sudden lessening of the pressure causes the liquid as it squirts out to turn part cold solid, part...
...asked to give his idea of paradise. It had been this worthy man's occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which to him to approach the unknowable paradise. His answer was short and unhesitating. "I should have liked sometime to have given that bolt its last turn...