Citations:Armstrongian

English citations of Armstrongian

1. Of or relating to Lance Armstrong.
   • 2004 October 12, Jonathan v.d. Sluis, “Re: How long before this diasppears”, in rec.bicycles.racing‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Van Moorsel is the Netherlands' greatest cyclist ever, in spite of the somewhat Armstrongian ambiance surrounding her.

2. Of or relating to William W. Armstrong, American lawyer and politician.
   • 1908 June 4, “The most notable of all five-year periods in the history of American life insurance”, in The Spectator:

     Some of the indirect effects of the recent upheaval — first of Armstrongian nature, and secondly, of panicky character — cannot even approximately be sized up for years to come, but there have been indisputable effects which are now matters of history.

3. Of or relating to William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English scientist, inventor and philanthropist.
   • 1863 November 6, “The great gun question”, in Mechanics Magazine, page 769:

     The Times, the faithful exponent of Armstrongian vaticinations, exultingly dwelt upon the destructive effects of the tremendous 200-pounders.

4. Of or relating to Henry Edward Armstrong, English chemist and science educator.
   • 1937, The School Science Review, volume 19, page 2:

     Armstrong had genuine artistic taste. His pressure secured from Aston Webb the design of a splendid and spacious studio; his enterprise and C. E. Browne's laid fine foundations of science teaching on Armstrongian lines; while under his influence T. E. Usherwood established the Manual and Engineering Schools and H. R. Rigby made the Art School famous by supplying for his pupils not methodized instruction, but the opportunity of working in almost any medium according to their individual sense of beauty.

   • 1940, The Journal of Education, volume 72, page 447:

     Armstrong himself, for instance, tended to overlook the importance of the content of science courses; he believed firmly in the automatic transfer of scientific habits from science to other fields; his view of the nature of scientific method was Baconian and shared the defects of that philosophy. In consequence, Armstrongian methods, in their pristine purity, cannot unreservedly be recommended even by those who unreservedly sympathize with the aims of those methods.

5. Unknown referent.
   • 1871 December 6, Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal, volume 10, page 57:

     I am no Beckerian or Armstrongian enthusiast; au contraire, and very much so, I hold those—those—well, I believe they do belong to our sex, and are females—to be people below the criticism of an honestly pure-minded English girl […]