Word: manuals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13 children of whom three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When...
Bertrand Fox 5G (K) defeated John H. Finley '25 (E) 3-2; Raymond S. Clark '36 (K) defeated William A. Coolidge 1L (E) 3-1; Alden H. Bryan '35 (K) defeated Frank W. Knowlton '36 (E) 3-2; Clifford Manual '35 (K) defeated John Dane 2L (E) 3-0; Thomas A. Meade '34 (K) defeated Acosta Nichols...
...many of their subjects had actually got jobs as a result of their correspondence study. But they did find that only one in six listed as his chief occupation the field of his study while only one in four had ever been employed in that field. Mental and manual tests indicated that 78% of the students would be misfits if they should succeed in getting the jobs for which they studied...
...more than adequate system of indices, including both the ordinary type of index and a cut-back page effect; the result is that anyone can locate the best drink of a given base in a minimum of time, and with a minimum of thought. One can, by employing the manual, adjust the drinks to what there is on hand in the way of liquors and mixers with uncanny accuracy; the forthcoming drinks, experiment shows, are more potable than the average shot-in-the-dark concoction...
...weights, engaging a small supplementary clutch which throws the car into direct drive (high gear). When the car slows down below 18 m.p.h. the weights drop back, the small clutch disengages and the car is automatically in low. As the low is a fast low, Reo has provided a manual shift which changes the ratio to a low low and high low. Reverse is also manual...