Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshmen may also choose their own form of exercise, but it is more important for them to continue as the majority of them are doing now--rowing on the machines. The tank, too, will be ready for them after vacation, with the motor installed...
...past four years the water in the tank has not been propelled by motor. This year a speed of four or five miles per hour is expected, which will increase the possible stroke from 16 to about 28 per minute...
...character of the mental development of the child up to six is by no means purely or preeminently intellectual. Almost from the beginning it is social, emotional, moral and denotes the organization of a personality. The infant acquires perceptions and motor coordination; he is incorporating modes of behavior which do not, of course, constitute a mature personality, but which psychologically are at the core of personality...
...every level of behavior, the psychological, the sensory-motor and the higher psychical, he is acquiring both healthful and unhealthful habits of activity. Though he may not learn to read in the pre-school years, he is mastering the alphabet of life. So potent are these fundamental lessons that this period easily becomes the soil of perversion, inefficiency and distorted or curtailed development. Psychoanalysis reveals significant instances in which the unfortunate experiences in the first years of life were competent to produce developmental disharmonies resulting in abnormal adult behavior...
...enter the spinning, weaving and dyeing industry, if he were going to carry out his policy of manufacting all parts of his car himself. Now Lockwood, Greene & Co., famed engineers and specialists in textile mill construction of Boston, have announced that they have been engaged by the Ford Motor Co. to build a large mill in Detroit, and furthermore that "experiments now being conducted point to a highly abbreviated and highly automatic process in the new mill...