Word: manual
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principle is contrary to (a) recognized parliamentary practice, Nation 5, p. 105, Smith's Manual, p. 364; (b) all congressional precedent, e. g. Blaine's ruling...
...Efficient municipal aid is (1) impracticable, because (a) manual labor only can be furnished, for which the majority of the unemployed are unqualified. (2) It is inadvisable, because (a) it furnishes too great an opportunity to officials to distribute aid for partisan purposes. (b) It weakens the beneficial offects of private charity...
...young engineer should never refuse an opportunity for gaining practical information. He should be thoroughly trained in the manual work of engineering, since a knowledge of the practical is necessary in making designs that will prove economical...
...tests of reaction time and quickness in sparring made by Dr. Fitz last year in the physiological laboratory will be continued this year. In addition to these, a "Visual location apparatus for testing manual quickness and accuracy" has been devised. The machine consists of a moving carriage which is placed in different positions behind a screen. The screen is suddenly dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds...
...little manual entitled "Parliamentary Tactics, or Rules for Debate," by H. W. Hoot, has just appeared. It is arranged in a way specially adapted for use by "the Chair" from such standard authorities as Roberts, Cushing, Matthias, Jefferson and Crocker. Where the authorities differ, the view most conformable to the latest and most thoroughly established usages of parliamentary law has been accepted...