Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this experiment the electrical energy produced by a man riding a bicycle was measured. It was discovered that man is at his highest physical efficiency when he is work-in a temperature of 70 degrees. Under such conditions 24 per cent of his food energy is given to mechanical work...
Under higher or lower conditions of temperature his efficiency decreases. It was discovered, for example, that in a temperature of 110 degrees man's efficiency is only 18 per cent, a reduction of 6 per cent over his efficiency at 70 degrees. This is the condition in many branches of industry, as in steel mills and glass works. It is believed that further work in this line, and adaptation of its results to practical problems will prove of great value in such branches of commerce...
...justice to an offender, and in connection with the sentiment so easily aroused by any significant electrocution, that the banks of Texas have found it effective and expedient to put a premium on summary punishment for bank robbers. Five thousand dollars for a dead bank robber, but not a cent for a live one! The arrangement in Texas seems effective and popular, but distinctly pragmatical...
...Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy in California, deposited a million and a half to the credit of the University of California. Though head of the largest banking organization in the U. S., Giannini refuses wealth. His gift to education was a gift to him, representing five per cent of the bank's profits last year voted to him by his directors. It will establish the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Simultaneously shrewd Yankees in Vermont raised a six million dollar endowment for a college at Bennington. The students will be women; their studies designed specially to develop...
...marks their sites. But do not try to seek them out. For with the recent demolition of the Sun Tavern and the Three Mariners the last of Boston's old taverns have gone. Now their place is taken by Waldorf Lunches, Chain cigar shops, and five-and-ten cent stores. And the taverns of old may only be found inside the covers of a book...