Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pick and shovel, of typewriter and ledger, through the factory and office, to the organization of the work of the Executive or the Congress of the nation, investigations might be made which, if put into effect, would add from 10% to 100% to effective productivity and lessen to an equal extent effort and fatigue." Dr. Cattell told of labor's change of heart toward such studies, which were not to be compared with psychoanalysis, phrenology, face-reading and other "quackery." He revealed that the late Samuel Gompers had a long correspondence with scientists with a view to advocating psychological selection...
...blame this extreme frankness on the ascent of women to equal rights," he went on. "Men have always preserved a certain reticence where women are concerned, but today this is altogether lacking. It is, of course, a certain phase which must be gone through, and after wards the pendulum will undoubtedly swing back in the opposite direction...
...almost unanimously, almost without a change. So the bill went to the Senate where a half of that body (more or less, no one can yet say) were sharpening their claws to tear it to pieces, prepared to fight over every hair on its body, with the chances nearly equal whether it will emerge the same creature or quite another. But Senate leaders none the less expressed a hope that it would emerge before March...
Clement M. Biddle, President of the Biddle Purchasing Co., said that 137 plans for changing the calendar had been submitted to him, of which he had read 30. The plans were, in general, of two kinds-those that divided the year into four equal quarters, and those that gave it 13 months...
...Erie, Pa., high-school children (watched by a chemistry instructor) set out to investigate. Filling a bowl with equal parts of whisky and water, they placed therein a red perch. It lived four seconds. A bullfrog lasted 13 seconds, a bass one minute, a sunfish four minutes. Then a tadpole was dropped into the bowl. It lived...