Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Big Berthas went right to work in the first, and knocked Nassau ace Lefty Farber out of the box with a three hit barrage...
...Would appeasement put us right back where we were in 1932?" asked Sweezy. "It's not a question of the government appeasing business, but rather of business appeasing government and the people and convincing them that business is a good thing...
...vocal impulses in the wording of a command are not delivered just right, Elektro may apparently disobey. In Pittsburgh last week the robot made nice publicity for himself by disobeying his master. His designer, Engineer J. M. Barnett, practicing signals for reporters, ordered him to raise one arm. Instead he started walking backward, kept on walking backward even when commanded to stop by the engineer, who grew a little excited-and still less careful of his phrasing. Elektro might have backed through a wall had not Robotmaster Barnett shut off his supply of electric power...
...Western World of Bandon, Ore. appeared a notice: "Lost-At Port Orford beach, a hunk of right thumb with small piece of thumb nail attached. Finder please notify Ruth Tucker...
Cold-eyed, aggressive Max Gilman joined Packard in 1918 as a truck salesman, was sales manager and vice president of Packard's New York company when he was brought to Detroit in 1932 to serve as Mr. Macauley's right hand in Packard's successful invasion of the medium-price field. Motorman Gilman once crusaded against the bad manners of Manhattan taxi drivers by cruising about the streets in an old touring car and forcing offenders into elevated-railway pillars. His big accomplishment to date: raising the pressure of Packard's gentlemanly dealer organization-which last...