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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Technically, a machine tool is a power-driven, non-portable instrument that removes metal in the form of chips. One of the indices of machine tool efficiency is the amount of metal chipped per minute. Up to 1900, with old-fashioned carbon steel tools, about one-quarter of a pound of metal could be cut in 60 seconds. Today, using tools tipped with cemented carbides, the chips fall at the rate of 17 lb. per minute. Carbides are crystalline substances so hard that they will machine glass...
Abandoning a proposal to make the non-resident students members of the Houses, the Investigation Committee distributed 800 questionnaires to ascertain the attitude of the commuters and the amount of financial support they would be willing to give. Preliminary returns indicated that the commuters were in full sympathy with the movement...
...invited to attend an informal luncheon given in Manhattan by the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. Asked to make a speech, he said in the course of some good-humored remarks that U. S. businessmen need not expect to do any more business with the Soviet Union than the amount that the U. S. was prepared to extend in credit. About the same time he also attended a tea given in Manhattan by Soviet Consul General Leonid Tolokonsky...
...increased, may decrease through lack of use. Presumably only the congenital idiot lacks it entirely. Versatile people who do a number of things fairly well are likely to be possessors of much G without pronounced special abilities. Geniuses need both G and an extraordinary special talent, although the amount of G required for music, painting and literature is small. Proficiency in geometry (dealing with space) and in arithmetic (dealing, with numbers) are entirely unrelated except for a common demand on G. Dr. Spearman would not define G exactly, said it might have some connection with "the mass-action...
...stockholders invested the money which provides you with jobs. If the company prospers they get a reasonable return on their investment. If the company fails they stand to lose all of their investment. The amount per employe which they have advanced to [or left with] the management...