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...armed drivers had better restrict their activities to the sofa or the back seat if the safety of the roads is to be preserved, in the opinion of Dr. Harry R. de Silva. He has recently joined the staff to the University Bureau for Street Traffic Research and will direct a year's study on the cause and cure of accidents from the viewpoint of the individual driver...
Aside from these general remarks, Dr. de Silva's most interesting observations were concerned with the system of tests of driving skill which he has invented and developed himself, and which has received a large amount of current publicity...
Braking reaction is measured by noting the interval between the flashing of a red light and the moment when the brake pedal in a model car, operated by the subject, is completely pushed down. "Contrary to the popular supposition", stated Dr. de Silva, "the braking time of the average person after taking a drink of gin is faster, not slower, than normally. Of course, the general efficiency of the driver is lowered, and his coordination is not so good, but in this one case the body reaction is speeded...
Primitives of the Catalonian and Aragonese Schools were there, along with excellent examples of 15th and 16th Century anonymous religious paintings. But the reputation of Spain as an art centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...
...Theodore Roosevelt was moving out of the White House, a Brazilian army engineer named Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, running a telegraph line through the untracked fastnesses of central Brazil, glimpsed the headwaters of an unmapped river that flowed he knew not whither. He called it Rio da Dúvida-"River of Doubt...