It was found in a joint meeting of ordnance officers and ammunition manufacturers that certain increased tolerances could be permitted in our specifications without affecting the serviceability of the ammunition.
They have an economic significance as habits of thought which affect the individual's habitual view of the facts and sequences with which he comes in contact, and which thereby affect the individual's serviceability for the industrial purpose.
The honorific element and the element of brute efficiency are not held apart in the consumer's appreciation of commodities, and the two together go to make up the unanalyzed aggregate serviceability of the goods.
Neither in matters of art and taste proper, nor as regards the current sense of the serviceability of goods, does this canon act as a principle of innovation or initiative.
Knowledge of this kind passes for knowledge of the "unknowable", and it owes its serviceability for the sacerdotal purpose to its recondite character.
The question here concerns the less picturesque and less urgent economic value of the belief in such a preternatural agency, taken as a habit of thought which affects the industrial serviceability of the believer.
The consumption of expensive goods is meritorious, and the goods which contain an appreciable element of cost in excess of what goes to give them serviceability for their ostensible mechanical purpose are honorific.
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
Serviceability for these lusory institutions requires sedulous training or breeding.
They indicate the presence of a mental attitude which has a certain economic value of its own by virtue of its influence upon the industrial serviceability of the individual.
In social relations his serviceability is exemplary; he abounds in impulses to help.
It is the character of inner happiness in the thoughts which stamps them as good, or else their consistency with our other opinions and their serviceability for our needs, which make them pass for true in our esteem.
Inner happiness and serviceability do not always agree.
I hoped also to find serviceability in combination with these other qualifications, but the latter were the things that I insisted on in advance.
The volume and serviceability of the output must wait unreservedly on the very particular pecuniary question of what quantity and what degree of serviceability will yield the largest net return in terms of price.
Plainly, any dynastic statesman who should undertake to further the common welfare regardless of its serviceability for warlike enterprise would be defeating his own purpose.
Her serviceability to the English, to whose extending power she had the good sense not to put herself in opposition, secured to her the right to continue her depredations.
Nor does the algebraic sum of individual pecuniary gains measure the aggregate serviceability of the activities for which the gains are got.
The ground of survival in the selective process is fitness for pecuniary gain, not fitness for serviceability at large.
With the Physiocrats this productive force is the "anabolism" of Nature (to resort to a physiological term): with Adam Smith it is chiefly human labor directed to heightening the serviceability of the materials with which it is occupied.
It is characteristic of workmanship that its primary consideration is serviceability or utility.
Workmanship in its consideration of serviceability oftentimes arrives at beauty and classic production, when creative impulse without the spirit of workmanship fails.
The serviceability of the earth road depends to a large extent upon the care exercised in its maintenance.
The nature of the existing soil will obviously determine the serviceability and physical characteristics of the road surface it affords.
It is for this reason that earth roads often exhibit great differences in serviceability even in a restricted area.
The serviceability of a gravel road will depend largely on how nearly the gravel approaches the ideal, but variations in the manipulations will do much to overcome deficiencies in materials.
These surfaces have maximum serviceability when moist, not wet, and consequently are not as durable in dry climates as in humid areas.
