Word: temperedness
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What made up Maxwell's mind on simplified spelling was that Chicagoland schoolteachers complained that they were having trouble teaching students to spell words right when the Trib persisted in spelling them wrong. While most newsmen applauded the efforts of the new Trib's bosses to strike out...
Over the past few years, few contract negotiations in U.S. industry have been as bitter and bumpy as those between General Electric Co. and the C.I.O.'s International Union of Electrical Workers. With out fail, the I.U.E.'s trigger-tempered Boss James B. Carey peppered the company with...
Like most Spanish intellectuals since his day, Goya was a liberal at war with himself. When Napoleon invaded Spain in 1808, Goya at first welcomed what he hoped would be a clean broom. But his patriotic heart went out to the defenders, and he finally engraved on his dagger the...
The theme of Schoffer's "conferences" he calls spatiodynamisme. Sculpture, he thinks, should reach up and out to dominate space, rather than simply filling a certain portion of it. Modern materials such as tempered steel make such "dynamic" sculptures possible on a grand scale, and the addition of so...
The Dark Days. His son, August Busch Sr., took over the presidency, steadily boosted sales even through World War I, when anti-German feeling ran high in the U.S. He built the chateau on his estate to move his children out to the country, where, as Gussie Jr. says, "a...