Word: blueprints
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...inventor patented his engine blueprint in 1892 but the first experimental model was not completed until the next year. It was started by outside power, then fuel was injected. The engine blew up. Diesel was pleased. It had shown him that the heat of compression really was enough to ignite the fuel. Four more years of hard, steady work produced an engine with the highest thermal efficiency of any then in existence...
Like any other political blueprint, Plan E functions more smoothly on paper than in practice. Cleveland returned to the mayoralty system after the city manager's cabinet was found to have passed back into the control of the bosses. The destruction of the ward and its intimate relationships tends to breed indifference in the voters and encourages group interests to put up candidates of their own. These difficulties have to be reckoned with; but how they will lead to "dictatorial gangster-rule," only the vision of a Mike Sullivan can perceive...
Director of the Mission is grave, slow-smiling Dr. Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council of Churches. At Kansas City he laid down its blueprint: "The National Christian Mission . . . seeks to restore the inner resources of the nation through repentance, faith, devotion and responsible citizenship. ... The Mission is united in seeking a new world order of justice and peace. The Mission is united also in its belief that the democratic way of life, to which it is devoted, requires spiritual foundations...
...force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state? Cousin Lytton had knocked the notions of pre-Communist intellectuals into a half-cocked hat so successfully that Cousin John had only to pick up the pieces and fit them together according to the Marxian blueprint...
Last week the U. S. rearmament program was still largely in the blueprint stage. But up & down the economy, certain factories, from steel to handkerchiefs, were beginning to stir to the increasing drum roll of orders, real and promised...