Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Binet first conceived the idea," the lecturer pointed out, "of devising a measuring scale upon norms from a large number of individuals. This method was revised and adapted by Professor Terman of Standard University, and the satisfactory results obtained have been a stimulus to the development of group intelligence tests...
...last lecture Professor de Margerie told of the military topography of France, and in this lecture he will describe private topography, small-scale maps and stereotopography. The lecture is open to all members of the University and to the public at large...
Professor Taussig stated that there were three modes of approach to the problem: by statistics, by experimental psychology, and by biology. The statistical mode has been tried twice on a large scale, the speaker declared. These experiments had exactly the same results, but they were interpreted in directly opposite ways by the two experimenters...
Events show a marked tendency to violence, but on the whole nothing disastrous has occurred-accepting the situation as it stands. The French and Belgians have been very active. Prosecutions have been carried out on a large scale. Almost the whole of the Bochum Municipal Council was arrested for disobedience to French orders, but with certain exceptions they have been released. More than a thousand people have been arrested, and in most cases sentenced or fined for boycotting the troops...
Slides were then thrown on the screen showing the exact location and the topography in the neighborhood of the peak. Taking his subject well in hand Mr. Mallory described in detail the expedition's first attempt to scale the mountain last May. After establishing five camps the party fell short of reaching their destination by 2,000 feet. They would have gone further but the third member of the party became ill and in order not to leave him to die, it was decided to turn back...