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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universal use of the profit motive throughout Soviet industry as an incentive to workmen. I visited factories where the 'Stakhanovites' were receiving twice and thrice the wages of other workmen. In plants we visited the directors were all men of between 35 and 40. The average age of the workers was between 23 and 27. The best organization seemed to be in factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than in the United States. About a quarter of the workers in all factories we visited were women who appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Dirac took a short-time scale figure for the age of the universe, expressed it in terms of the atomic constant e²/mc³. The figure turned out to be approximately the same as Eddington's 10 39 . The square of the universe's age would therefore be equal to Eddington's other figure, 10 78 . Armed with these two fine coincidences, Dirac next proposed to dispense with the giant numbers and simply say that the ratio of electrical to gravitational force between proton and electron equals t, the age of the universe, and the amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Leftover Universe | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Charles Hutter Jr. '38. He is 20 years of age, weights 171 pounds and is 6 feet tall. He prepared for Harvard at Central High School. His home is in Watertown, New York. Hutter holds the Harvard record in the 220 yard free style at 2m. 13/10s. In the 50 yard free style swim he holds the Harvard and Pool record at 23s. and the Harvard-Yale Dual Meet record at 23 2/10s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Face Powerful Elis; Wrestlers at Lehigh | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...Gregory Jameson '37. He is 21 years of age, weighs 170 pounds and is 5 feet 11 inches tall. He prepared for Harvard at Andover. His home is in Branford, Connecticut. He holds the Harvard and Pool record in the 200 yard breast stroke swim at 2m. 25 8/10s...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Face Powerful Elis; Wrestlers at Lehigh | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

Donald N. McKay '38. He is 19 years of age, weighs 145 pounds and is 5 feet 8 inches tall. He prepared for Harvard at Roosevelt High School. His home is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a member of the 400 yard relay team which holds the Harvard and Pool record at 3m. 37s.DARIO BERIZZI A Hal of a Night. No F'Ulen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Face Powerful Elis; Wrestlers at Lehigh | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

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