Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to the old rules was not advocated by too tremendous a majority, 792 to 433, voters rejected revision and standardization of these rules by 692 to 412. The Oxford card system found little favor as a method of revision, being snowed under by almost a 3 to 1 count...
...line. For Big Tony this is child's play but sometimes he trades jobs with another man who inserts (but does not tighten) the radiator bolts. How many radiators he puts on per hour depends on the speed of the assembly line. Big Tony has never bothered to count...
Workers have not been the only beneficiaries of the pre-year plan. The rate of layoff and return have been reduced 25%. Fewer men have quit, fewer have been fired (layoffs do not count as discharges). For manufacturers this lower rate of labor turnover makes for more efficient operation, fewer accidents. Although the dealer now has to carry more cars on his floor during the winter, he, too, has benefited because his selling season is longer. The one snag is used cars. A new model may excite a prospect into an early purchase but second-hand cars are still bought...
...easiest way of working out degree requirements would be to lower the necessary courses to eleven, but demand that these should all be advanced. Elementary courses would not count toward the degree, and would only be taken by four-year men whose lack of school preparation demanded it. In this manner a comprehensible choice would be given to incoming Freshmen which would entail no useless friction and frantic decisions followed by summer school sessions...
...drunk who wrote the lines. But it's no good passing the buck. The latter two factors contribute considerable shares, to be sure, but Carole's the crux of the excruciation. You may have seen her often before (she's been in pictures more years than she likes to count), and never liked her at all. As a society belle with enough sense to be bored with her life, she may have bored in her turn. But now in the role of an unmitigated moron who throws herself into everything with an unquestioning vehemence, she is the answer...