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Word: elys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale Coach Carmen Cozza just may have assigned George Allen's book on football as homework for his Bulldogs. Yale's defense forced three costly Colgate turnovers in the first half. Linebacker John Smoot recovered two fumbles and picked off an errant Red Raider pass to set up three Eli scores...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Brown, Dartmouth Win | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

YALE--UCONN: The Eli are always tough, especially at the beginning of the season when the University of Connecticut offers itself up as a sacrifice. UConn won this two years ago, but maybe never again. Yale 30, UConn...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 9/27/1975 | See Source »

...legacy of Leahy, Rock and Ara suddenly made all the ballyhoo over a Crimson-Eli confrontation seem embarrassingly small-time. "We're talking Real football," were the cries, "Not this Ivy league, Pop Warner variety but bigtime top 20 football." The argument was convincing. Foxboro here I come...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...principles of mass production were laid down in 1799 by that largely home-taught genius Eli Whitney, when he set up a factory to make muskets. Whitney established the American vernacular: economy, simplicity and flexibility, which, in industrial terms, were translated as quantity, standardization and interchangeability of parts. Watching clumsy workmen fumble the parts of the cotton gin, which he invented, Whitney realized that he had to put his own skill into every untaught hand, and to do this he had "to substitute correct and effective operations of machinery for that skill of the artist which is acquired only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Clock Watchers: Americans at Work | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

Taylor's essential idea was to organize the work unit along the same lines that Eli Whitney had organized production. Traditional management had little exact knowledge of the time a job should take, the tools best adapted to a task or the pace at which a man should work. Taylor's innovation-time-and-motion study-was based on a painstaking analysis of work: the exact number of elementary operations or motions, the time required to do these, the elimination of waste motions and the recombination of these times and motions into a mathematical formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Clock Watchers: Americans at Work | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

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