Word: steadier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Angell, however, has had no steadier right hand than Charles Seymour. In 1927 he became University Provost, chief link between Yale's faculty and administration. The first Yale bigwig to encourage the College plan, he helped supervise the building of the colleges, became master of one of them (Berkeley), was until this year chairman of the Council of Masters. His wife (Gladys Watkins of Scranton, Pa.), his 24-year-old son Charles Jr. (Yale 1935 ), now studying art in Paris, and his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, helped him to entertain Berkeley's boys...
...trained and distributed 200 German shepherds, reports that only 5% of the dogs brought to the farm turn out to be uneducable. The shepherds begin their training as soon as they are full-grown, are useful through a life span of ten years. Most breeders believe that bitches are steadier and more intelligent than dogs. The "Seeing Eye" has not found males markedly inferior to females, uses about three bitches to two dogs. "Seeing Eye" dogs do not, as many people suppose, memorize the blind man's route. The blind man must know his own route...
...probably would have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built; the natives of much of the route regard the bus as a creation of Mars, judging by the way they stare at the apparition as it roars along the boulevards or chugs through small-town streets; passengers have to trust to luck to find...
...entire U. S. Lining up with the Roosevelt "yardstick" policy, the Committee was nonetheless careful to point out that such unification would not necessarily mean extension of Government ownership. It would, indeed, benefit the private producer by eliminating duplication of plant and equipment, creating a larger and steadier market, opening up new sources of energy. But: "During the next 20 years [the Government] could profitably spend $1,000,000,000 on river works in the Mississippi Valley, half of which would be for self-liquidating power installations." "A safe and socially justifiable experiment" would be the allotment...
...janitor, and the plenipotentiary of the Maintenance Department at a consultation around the hearth yesterday, opined that they could blow away the whole trouble, by putting the fan under the fire. Common Room loungers however were skeptical, saying that the smoke would be blown around them stronger and steadier. We suggest a gas-range...