Word: resultants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confirmed by an actual strength test. These trials were made by means of three spring-dynamometers, a spirometer, manometer, a pair of suspended rings and a set of parallel bars. The tests were limited to the back, legs, chest, upper arm and fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon the number of times the body...
...part of the individual to every other part. The same man may be above the normal in one measurement, and below in another. The extent of the variation is the desirable thing to know. In one instance this variation might not exceed the physical limits; in another it might result in a deformity. These differences are but vaguely suggested when expressed in figures, yet it is futile to tell a person that he is above or below the average without indicating the degree, or informing him of its significance...
...This competition has often proved ruinous in particular occupations; profits and wages have fallen in a marked degree as a result of the low price of prison-made goods.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 94-97, 98 et. seq., 117, 118; Science, Vol. VII., pp. 117, 143, 168; United States Report on Convict Labor...
...play with professionals. They ought to feel called upon to address a circular letter to the other colleges in the league urging the discontinuance of the present custom. We are convinced that a sober appeal from one faculty to another could not fail of bringing about the desired result. As for our own position in this matter, we are persuaded that base-ball would be elevated as a college sport through such a return to former times, thought it might lose some of the niceties which a life of "ball tossing" lends to the game as played by professionals...
...such a continuous current of cold air beating down on one's head as to confine him in his room for a day or so with a bad cold or a sore throat. Prof. Childs was compelled to stay in his house two days last week as a direct result of his zeal in trying to find some books in the library. All this cannot be laid to the riegligence of the employees of that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there is no justification for the college authorities to pass...