Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Braking reaction is measured by noting the interval between the flashing of a red light and the moment when the brake pedal in a model car, operated by the subject, is completely pushed down. "Contrary to the popular supposition", stated Dr. de Silva, "the braking time of the average person after taking a drink of gin is faster, not slower, than normally. Of course, the general efficiency of the driver is lowered, and his coordination is not so good, but in this one case the body reaction is speeded...
...walls of his office hang twelve portraits of Andrew Jackson. The portraits are appropriate, for Emil Hurja went to Washington to apply modern business methods to political patronage. To distribute several hundred thousand jobs where they would do the most good for the Party, he established a model system of "political clearance." Instead of simply allotting jobs at the request of Congressmen, all applicants were made to bring endorsements from local Democratic leaders. These were filed in triplicate according to the name of the applicant, the type of job he wanted, the name of his sponsor. In recommending Democrats...
...Student Council and announced that a brand new experiment will begin on April 10th. Freshmen may eat one meal a week in the Houses, exchanging Union fare for House fare on the counter signature of a House member. On the basis of this test flight, the final, permanent model will...
...guilt or innocence that it took 13 days to select twelve good men & true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before, the prosecution was ready to show that blood from a severed artery could not have spurted naturally as far as Mrs. Lamson's did, that, ergo, Mr. Lamson must have sprayed it around while beating...
...design for the seal, made by John Coney, Boston silversmith, in 1693, is so well done that it was adopted last June as the model for the new type of A.B. and A.M. diplomas...