Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates go. Harvardmen began to think...
...being deprived of brilliant lecturers and stimulating tutors. We resent the consequent impairment of educational standards. We feel, to put it bluntly, that we are being cheated." In developing this theme, Mr. Ross indulges in little special pleading for the known victims of what he calls "President Conant's slide-rule"--rather he looks into the future warning that "the elimination of an entire age group in the faculty is threatened--one which provides most of the experienced teaching available to undergraduates." While Mr. Ross devotes a good part of his analysis to this threat, he does not neglect other...
...drop of blood is taken from the finger tip of a cancer suspect. The blood is dissolved in a small amount of lukewarm sterile water, mixed with copper chloride and spread on a glass microscope slide to crystallize. Healthy blood forms a green crystal pattern which, under a microscope, looks like a delicate, fan-shaped palm leaf. But in cancerous blood some unknown chemical forms a pattern of scattered, double-wing bow ties. In 1,000 trials on known cancer victims, said Drs. Pfeiffer and Miley, the copper test was 80% accurate...
...activators) at ordinary temperatures. Up to now chemists have regarded such compounds as indifferent to one another, capable at best of being shotgunned into chemical matrimony by violent stimulants, high temperatures and great pressures. These strongarm methods, even when successful, are wasteful. In the Calingaert process the new molecules slide together without fuss...
...stocks but in U. S. Government bonds. Inflation-minded investors who wished to shift to stocks unloaded Governments. Both for the sake of the Treasury and of U. S. member banks, 70% of whose investments are in direct and guaranteed Government obligations, the market could not be allowed to slide...