Word: kelvinator
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...exaggerating the snares you discredited the science of statistics. Even though my students affectionately call it "sadistics," Lord Kelvin's maxim still applies: "Unless yon have measured it, you don't know what you are talking about...
...present study also confirms the positive association between psychological and physical disorder. The data presented here are from much the same as those reported at Yale, at the University of Western Ontario, and by Kelvin, Lucas, and Ojha at University College, London. One can interpret these data as indicative of the general health preoccupation in many neurotic and phychotic disorders and as illustrative of the essential psychobiologic unity of the organism. There is also the implication that many students who seek psychiatric help may already have been seen in the medical or surgical clinics, and some signs of their psychic...
...brilliant, stained-glass window reflecting the Royal Air Force's stand during the Battle of Britain. But to the enduring honor of England, more than military pomp and glory is recognized. The Abbey is also a national grave for the composer Purcell, the scientists Newton, Darwin and Kelvin. In Poets' Corner lie a score more than Keats, Tennyson and Browning. There is even a modern Epstein bust of Blake...
Those words of Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist, are carved in stone above the entrance to the Detroit headquarters of American Motors Corp. American was certain that it had thought of a better way when it led the massive consumer shift to compact, economy cars in the late 1950s. It is less certain today. For the past two years, affluent consumers have been moving up to larger, more luxurious cars, and American's sales and profits have been steadily declining. Last week, after Detroit's Big Three had all reported record earnings in the first quarter...
...past the cup. Normally a coldly precise putter. Palmer lost his poise, missed his return, and ended the round with a 70. Next day Palmer again three-putted the 17th. and his score of 71 dropped him seven strokes behind De Vicenzo, five behind Australia's balding Kelvin Nagle. Tense and disgusted, Palmer stalked off the course, packed his family in a car, drove deep into the Scottish countryside...