Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, unions representing some 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers (clerks, shopmen, telegraphers, etc.) demanded a 40-hour, five-day week (instead of a 48-hour, six-day week), a "third-round" 25?-an-hour wage boost, extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. Negotiations were soon mired in argument. After mid-January the unions had the right to strike. Instead they continued to negotiate...
...there is a twist to the classification. The animals are not the ordinary farm livestock variety; they are human. Sheep are persons who believe in the possibility of extra-sensory perception, and goats are those who disbelieve that such a power exists...
...object of the experiment is to see whether a person's "belief" affects his extra-sensory ability. In tests conducted at the Harvard Psychological Clinic several years ago, the sheep, or believers, have shown telepathic ability repeatedly in scientific tests, so that the experimenters considered the results significant proof that this power exists. The goats, on the other hand, have shown consistently telepathic aptitude...
...only five, which shows that merely chance is determining the results. Sometimes, however, a particularly defiant disbeliever scores a significantly negative result. His average may run three and a half or four correct guesses. This has led the experimenters to believe that perhaps the goat is unconsciously using extra-sensory powers to negate the results in order to be consistent with his belief that positive results cannot be obtained...
Although the increased tuition balances the budget in terms of long-range commitments, it will not provide enough extra funds to finance new developments. The Provost recently announced a special fund-raising drive for such needs as General Education, scholarships, and a student activities center, "rather than raise tuition still higher...