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Word: regulars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lower wage groups as mostly part-time workers the maids will receive 38 cents an hour for regular work, 43 cents for vacation cleaning. "Biddies" will have gained by this move a flat increase of six cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY GIVES WAGE INCREASES TO 400 WORKERS | 12/9/1937 | See Source »

Hemenway Gymnasium is now a regular beehive of activity as the Freshman and Law School handball tournaments get under way and Howard Cox's gymnasts get under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEMENWAY GYM ACTIVE | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...Center's clinic is to measure hops, fixations and regressions with an ophthalmograph. which takes motion pictures of a reader's eye movements. The resulting picture looks like sets of stairs, recording the eye's stops and jerks. If the reader is efficient, the stairs are regular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: First R | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...create a regular rhythm of reading is the task of another machine, the metronoscope, which exposes one, two or three words at a time to the reader through a narrow window. It trains the reader to extend his span to two words, cuts the fixation time. Because the words move out of sight as fast as they are read, it eliminates regressions. The speed of the machine is gradually increased to raise the reader's speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: First R | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Died. Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, one-time (1899-1913) Congressman from Texas, Postmaster General (1913-1921); of heart trouble, in Austin, Tex. Postmaster Burleson built up the parcel post system, established the first regular air mail, advocated, after the War, permanent Government control of telegraph, telephone and cable services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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