Word: spadework
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...issue be raised at all representative and authoritative gatherings. Let commissions be established and the necessary spadework proceed. Now is the time...
Spies's flair is for clinical application of others' spadework. Many of his discoveries have been anticipated by other researchers, who concede that he has a happy "faculty of extending the observations" of other workers, that he fights hard, for his ideas. A few years ago he tangled with official medicine, whose therapeutic policy was a single vitamin for a single deficiency. Spies insisted that deficiency diseases were best treated by vitamin complexes. Doctors now admit that Tom Spies was right...
...give their aid and counsel, they finished the spadework for the first full-dress assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in 1948. Probable site: Holland or Denmark. Purpose: to mobilize the influence of the world's Protestant and Orthodox churches as a prime mover in international affairs...
Over to Congress. There he specialized in economic matters, did much of the spadework on Lend-Lease, and headed the U.S. delegation to the conference which set up UNRRA. Later, he took over as the department's Congressional liaison man. Congressmen liked him: his technique was facts and argument, not fixing...
...they may begin to think. Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of Office of Scientific Research and Development, believes that a "thinking" machine (of limited intellectual capabilities) can be built. In the July Atlantic Monthly, he predicts a brain robot that will relieve man of much of the routine spadework of thinking. The machine he envisages is an electronic and photographic contraption which would store facts for ready recall, sort a man's ideas, even organize them logically...