Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further evidence of G. M.'s concern for its employes, President Sloan announced that the annual distribution of stock & cash proceeds of the Corporation's employe savings plan, this year totaling $10,700,000, would be rushed. With even greater magnanimity, Vice President...
...Just before an examination it is legitimate to take some stimulant. ... It is certain that lump sugar gives almost immediate physical energy. Experiments show that alcohol in any form gives immediate energy followed by a period of depression greater than and lasting twice as long as the stimulation. A highball or cocktail is all right as a stimulant for a ten-minute interview but is worthless in preparing for a two-hour examination...
...electric current is simply the passage of electrons through a conductor. The greater the number of electrons, the higher the amperage of the current. At normal temperatures the electrons, pushed by the voltage, make the best individual progress they can through the maze of atoms, and they are impeded by the atomic dance. If the conductor is progressively chilled, the resistance to the current should fall off as the atomic dance slows down. In theory, the resistance should diminish in a smooth curve until it vanishes entirely at Absolute Zero, where the electrons would encounter no more opposition than would...
...have to be made, of course, in the case of some of the older members of the Faculty, for whom the readjustment of methods would be difficult, and for certain others who are engaged in special research, writing, the direction of graduate students, or other work which demands the greater part of their time...
...Administrative Board, be excused from two courses in their junior and senior years in order to devote more time to tutorial work. It would be well to authorize a reduction of either three or four courses in the last two years so as to give time for an even greater amount of independent work...