Word: lengthens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a pause, while the words register on the brain; 94% of reading time is spent in these "fixations." Sometimes the eye goes back over words it has already scanned. These are regressions. To read rapidly it is necessary to reduce regressions to a minimum, shorten fixations, lengthen the recognition span...
...well known to undergraduates that there is a small "rotary traffic" circle at the junction of four paths in Lowell. Whether this plot was designed merely to lengthen the journey across the court or was considered a contribution to Lowell's famed architectural excellence, has not been determined...
...allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When the sun expands the steel, the towers will lean several feet, the two 36½-in. cables will lengthen 16 ft. Greatest stress of all that the bridge may have to meet is an earthquake. Only six miles away and parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge is the San Andreas Fault, whose 22-ft. shift in 1906 leveled San Francisco. The question which has agitated Californians more than any other...
Last week the longshoremen offered to continue under the 1934 agreement until a new one was reached. The shipowners refused, announced that after Sept. 30 they would raise dock wages from 95? to $1 an hour, lengthen the working day from six to eight hours and temporarily abandon the use of hiring halls, the winning of whose management was the dockworkers' 1934 victory. If men would not work on those terms, the shipowners declared, they would shut down all operations.' Snarling that this would be "a lock-out," Leader Bridges declared: "Every port on the Pacific, the Gulf...
...that. But do not dodge the fact that this means fewer men employed and more men unemployed. The other way to reduce the costs of industrial production is to establish longer hours for the same pay or to reduce the pay for the same number of hours. If you lengthen hours you will need fewer workers. More men out of work. If you choose lower wages for the same number of hours you cut the dollars in the pay envelope and automatically cut down the purchasing power of the worker himself...