Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed "Hoover yardstick" or system comparing the "fighting strengths" of vessels (as distinguished from comparing only their tonnage) to be used chiefly in arriving at an agreement to reduce cruiser strengths, reduction of smaller craft like destroyers to proceed on a basis of simple tonnage...
Each special election on city management has, however, produced a smaller majority for Manager Hopkins. Last week he won by a scant 3,000 votes after Maurice Maschke, Ohio's National Republican Committeeman, had come to the support of Mr. Davis. Boss Maschke blamed Mr. Davis for their defeat. Had the latter promised the public not to run again for mayor himself, the plan would have won, felt Boss Maschke. A mathematician, Manager Hopkins on election night calculated that if his margin of victory continued to dwindle in the same ratio at future elections, he would be voted...
...Chéri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...
...born to the Steinmetzes of Breslau in April of 1865, alfresco play was difficult. Deformed son of a deformed father, gnomelike little Karl was smaller than most, also weak-legged, humpbacked, bigheaded, crablike. In kindergarten, learning became his play. From 7 to 17, shielded from religious influence, he developed into his Gymnasium's pride. Studying fundamentals of engineering at the University of Breslau, he kept his professors whole lecture hours arguing with...
...responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors. No inventor he, the Steinmetz theoretical work found fruition in three thick red volumes, Alternating Current. His popular book is America and the New Epoch, showing why he was pro-German...