Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane). Numerical rating was arrived at by noting the number of parts of non- knocking isooctane which must be added 1 to ten parts of heptane to duplicate exactly the fuel being rated. Thus, a fuel with a rating of 5 would be inordinately bad; fuel with a rating of 50, superlatively...
...political. Dr. Curtius had this to say: "The French Gov- ernment stresses the necessity of approaching European problems from the political side, leaving economic issues to be dealt with after certain political prerequisites have been fulfilled." The German Government considers economic issues paramount, holds that "it remains the task of Governments to bring their joint economic policies into harmony." Clearly the German reply harked back to the original idea of an European tariff consortium...
Choosing a man to spend that sum wisely might have been a hard task, but President Hoover found the man at hand. He appointed to be Administrator of Veterans' Affairs the Director of the Veterans' Bureau, Brig. General Frank Thomas Hines, Wartime Chief of Embarkation, famed Army administrator decorated by five nations. Continued the President: ''General Hines has been offered a very important commercial position, but has agreed to remain on temporarily to give me the advantage of his wide experience in reorganization of the new setup. As I have said, we will be able to make important economies...
Communication between plane and ground is a task which has been absorbing the best efforts of government and commercial aeronautics men, their main problem having been to build durable transmitters light enough.' Success was brilliantly demonstrated to laymen last week when Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Radioman Zeh Bouck communicated for an hour by their airplane radio in Buenos Aires, with the New York Times office 5,838 mi. away...
...philological derivations peculiar to the U. S. Last week the University of Chicago announced that Professor Sir William Craigie, since 1901 joint-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, had half-finished a compendium of such words, his Chicago American Dictionary, "the first historical dictionary of the American tongue." The task has already occupied him for four years. Professor Craigie, a thorough believer in the autonomy of Americanisms,* points out that "American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier, have brought forth, in three centuries of American independence, changes in language comparable...