Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things are really so bad, perhaps something should be done about it. Mr. Wells, though silent as to the remedy, can not be expected to keep silent very long. Perhaps the solution is to banish the offending female from nursery and kindergarten, and replace her with a special importation of English Creakles...
...ought to be a great comfort to every college student whose life-work is still a mystery to him to learn that success is a simple matter of training. If one would be a Shakespeare, a Bismarck, or a Newton, let him forget the "bete noire" of special gifts, of adverse talents and misapplied genius, and go through the necessary ritual of preparation. That is all there is to it--at least, according to Professor John B. Watson, formerly professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University...
...them into quantity production. If this can be done, unit costs in a closed car can be kept even with an open model, despite the greater material and workmanship called for by the former. Enthusiasts now prophesy that in a few years open cars will be built only on special order-as closed cars were when the motor industry first started...
...manacles are placed over the wrists of the patient. Under each manacle is a salt pad (electric conductor) from which a wire runs, bearing the current of the body to the quartz threads where they are stretched, shining in shadow, watched by the microscope and the lens of a special camera. The pulse moves in and out, currents move over the body and shake the threads, by whose photographed waverings the heart is studied. If the beat is regular and stout, the quartz will fluctuate in an even pattern on the photographic plate; if the heart limps the pattern...
...most ancient English legal institutions. It is probable that at first it not only accused but also tried public offenders. When America was settled however, it had become an informing and accusing body without whose previous action no person charged with a felony, except in certain very special cases, could be put on trial. It has always been considered a means of protecting the citizen against unfounded accusations whether "directed by the Government or prompted by partisan passion or private enmity." The effort in many communities is to have grand jury panel made up of leading citizens and to have...