Word: salient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such, last week, appeared the salient facts concerning the new "mystery" automobile, now definitely in production and soon to be offered to the motoring public. From an engineering standpoint, the distinctive feature of the Ruxton (named for W. V. C. Ruxton, partner of Spencer Trask Co., bankers, and a director in New Era Motor Car Co., Ruxton builders) is the front-wheel drive, previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear...
...fact of salient importance in the announcement of the changes of plans for the new indoor athletic plant is the postponement of the erection of a swimming pool. Reparation of the one great failure of Harvard athletic equipment to keep pace with policy, expected by many this winter, is delayed until some indefinite date...
...moment, however, the reduction of prices, or rather, the act making it possible, is salient in the public mind. A treasury which is able to slice two hundred million dollars from federal taxes hardly needs how the income derived from the automobile war tax which belongs anyway to that strange series growths orginating in the feverish days of 1917 along with wheatless days, government ownership, and Thritt Stamps Too small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators...
...College supervision over all the dwellings inhabited by students of the College. Whether or not it is desirable for undergraduates to live in definite proximity to other undergraduates is possibly a debatable question. It would be dangerous for a University which boasts the promotion of individuality as its salient care to assert that its members should form associations other wise than as they please. It can hardly, however, be denied that the protection afforded students by a College inspection of living conditions in the buildings open to them is of distinct value. Harvard has long conducted periodic investigation of dormitories...
...author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book from other works which try to compress much into little...