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...steel cylinder. An hydraulic confining pressure is applied through a liquid, or at very high pressures through lead. The highest confining pressure used are about 300,000 pounds per square inch. In addition, a direct, differential pressure is exerted on the specimen by a steel piston. Different pressure used attain more than 1.500,000 pounds per square inch...
...feel that he left college because he felt that only by a clean break and an independent one could he attain complete success. I am confident that he will succeed in whatever he undertakes, but I would like him to communicate with...
...normal" are Harvard graduates? Two years ago Mr. John Tunis managed to assemble data on his class ... and his article in Scribner's indicated that his class was "normal" only in its lack of distinction... The majority had failed to attain the goals they had established for themselves...
...Substantial justice" is the desideratum which the new rules (86 of them) aim to speed and attain. New in the U. S. (but familiar in England) is a provision for pre-trial hearings,† wherein a judge (who later is not the trial judge) calls before him the lawyers for both sides of a civil suit, determines with them the real issues involved, weeds out unessential witnesses, evidence and testimony, shortcuts the lawyers' technical maneuvers, (demurrers, motions to strike out, etc., etc.), thus saves time for the trial judge, jury and clients. The new rules also provide...
...duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic recovery. . . . Our purpose is putting these people to work not to compete with private industry or to build up a rival economic system outside the limits of private enterprise. Our purpose is to provide that stimulation to private production which will bring into full operation the private industrial plants that...