Word: index
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Mr. Swope is president has perhaps more than any other great corporation interested itself in the problem of fitting college graduates for positions in the business and engineering world, as witnessed by its maintianance of elaborate training courses. The results of these endeavors should offer a reliable index to the problems facing the present graduating class. And Mr. Swope himself has had a range of business training and experience which will make his judgment of the opportunities in business as a career peculiarly illuminating...
...average rating of the officers was higher than the average rating of the enlisted men, the while soldiers averaged higher than negro soldiers and so on. But it was never demonstrated and rarely asserted that in any individual case, the "intelligence test" gave a true index to mental ability. In the long run, the average results were dependable. Unfortunately, it is with individuals that the Committee on Admissions must deal, and as a basis of comparision for individuals, the "intelligence test" ought not be relied...
...fair index to the comparative records of the two teams was Dartmouth's ridiculously easy triumph over the Connecticut Aggies Freshmen by a 27 to 16 score, a team which outscored the Crimson 1927 quintet 31 to 22. Captain Picken, a diminutive guard, is the mainstay of the Green defense and a flashy offensive threat as well...
...young lord of the isle has his impassioned way with a simple, sweet girl; subsequently she is tried for infanticide. The young lord has become the presiding judge, just to have an effective moment when he condemns his former flame to be hanged. She escapes to America. An index of the whole picture is the final scene when the lord, now in prison, is married in his cell to his betrothed, filling it almost entirely with her bridal attire. Victor Seastrom has directed with the taut technique of Scandinavia. The Stranger. Hope for the cinema lies in a photoplay like...
...deaths from typhoid fever in the U. S., just completed by the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that during 1923 every city with a population over 500,000 had a mortality rate under 5 per 100,000 for this disease. As typhoid may be taken as an index of the sanitation of a city, the progress of American communities is encouraging. The first five were Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York with rates varying from 1.0 to 2.4. What the progress has been may be estimated from the fact that the average rates for the same five cities...