Seward Peninsula Railroad As activity on the Wild Goose-Nome Arctic and Council City and Solomon River railroads began to diminish, former vice-president and general manager of the Council City and Solomon River Railroad, J. Warren Dickson, announced plans for the Seward Peninsula Railroad Company in 1905. 5.
DIY ethic. DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert. Literally meaning do it yourself, the DIY ethic promotes the idea that anyone is capable of performing a variety of tasks rather than relying on paid specialists. The DIY ethic requires that the adherent seeks out the knowledge required to complete a given task. The term can refer to a variety of disciplines, including home improvement, first aid or creative works.
a Latin prefix meaning âapart,â âasunder,â âaway,â âutterly,â or having a privative, negative, or reversing force (see de-, un-2. ); used freely, especially with these latter senses, as an English formative: disability; disaffirm; disbar; disbelief; discontent; dishearten; dislike; disown. Also, di-. Origin of dis-1.