Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously nothing hasty should be done about this. The final examinations are already scheduled and cannot be changed. The factor of added expenses in proctoring must also be figured. By and large, however, the added fifteen minute period should be considered by the heads of the courses and departments with a view to determining its possible benefit in courses as well as divisional examinations. Next year some improvement could be effected, even though it is too late in the current season to benefit the Class of 1938. And the quarter hour can also be used by those who can find...
...causing injury, 24% were intoxicated (at least one part alcohol to 1,000 parts blood). A survey by Northwestern University's Traffic Safety Institute showed that of 2,000 drivers examined, only 4.2% were intoxicated. Comparison of the two figures demonstrated the extent to which alcohol is a factor in traffic accidents...
Observations with high-speed camera and photoelectric cell show that an expert golfer may swing his club head as fast as 125 m.p.h. At such velocities air resistance becomes a considerable factor. At the American Physical Society's convention in Washington last week, Physicist Sylvan Jay Crooker of Purcellville, Va. reported that air resistance may be diminished fifteenfold by scientific streamlining of the club head, the shape (except for the face of the club) conforming to airship hull contours tested in wind tunnels. Declared Dr. Crooker: "Dynamic and ballistic analyses, checked by field tests, prove the low-resistance [streamlined...
...great factor in the difficulties the manufacturers and retailers find themselves in at the present time involves the implications and repercussions attendant to the so-called contract that is entered into between the manufacturers and their retail outlets. It is a misnomer to say that this is a contract, because it is nothing more than a permit to do business . . . under the threat of cancellation. . . . This so-called contract is interstate in character. . . . Therefore, if those engaged in the automobile industry are to have relief, that relief must come from the Federal Government...
...Altgeld the essential factor about the Haymarket case was that the anarchists had not had a fair trial. Jurors had frankly admitted prejudice, and the record showed appalling contradictions. But when Altgeld said so in an 18,000-word pardon he was damned as a murderer, a communist, a demagogue, a foreigner, an anarchist, a thief, a liar, a madman, a knave, a fool, a bomb-thrower, a Nero and a coward...