Word: basically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school system mightily in his three years there. Specifically, he had made teachers "punch the time-clock"; had ruled against faculty meetings during classroom hours; held annual public accountings for the efficiency of his subordinates (by assembling representative student groups for quizzing by civic leaders); demanded 100% perfection in basic studies; refused to issue his picture to the press; made annual reports of which the good sense bordered upon the sensational; fought real estate grafts by aldermen; installed junior high schools...
...Victor instruments were evolved upon a basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank...
...claimed, as a loud speaker, reproducing broadcasted piano tones with a clarity unattained hitherto; reproducing also the human voice, without metallic sound or microphone roar. The inventors boasted of overtures from leading piano manufactures, pointing out that manufacturers of player pianos face the imminent expiration of their basic patents...
...speech, showing that in 1925 each freight employe in the U. S. "handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means of transportation-horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching out (electric engines). I predicted the long continuance of the second of these, the steam locomotive, as the dominant means of accomplishing the main purpose...
...considering the essays submitted in the CRIMSON'S contest the Committee of Judges sought an immediate and practical solution of the eating problem which should have a sound basic principle and be capable of future development and elaboration. Each judge real the ten essays, criticised, and rated them. The Committee then met and carefully discussed the essays in detail...