Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to popular opinion, Oxygen starvation does not seriously impair the judgment of pilots flying above 10,000 feet and cannot therefore be blamed for recent air tragedies, according to Ross A. McFarland '23, assistant professor of Industrial Research at the Fatigue Laboratory...
...upgrade. When Pennsylvania's Lieut.-Governor Thomas Patrick Kennedy (endorsed by Postmaster Farley), suffered a defeat in a State primary last week, political wiseacres reached the conclusion that Franklin Roosevelt's popularity was on the downgrade. Four days later, an Oregon primary election caused their judgment to be reversed...
...crash, but its findings could not be made known for weeks. Less stately was the pace of the coroner of Los Angeles County-where two other major plane crashes have occurred in the Saugus-New-hall Hill area. Said he: "The crash was accidental and due to faulty judgment on the part of both pilot and co-pilot...
...sense of the dignity of the scientific life and a natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic appointments, or personal affairs...
...considering the pros and cons of the historic debates of previous generations, a student can exercise his own judgment on matters of political importance relatively unhampered by the propagandist" President Conant avers...