Word: statics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backward-looking boards, he said, give examinations that try to find out whether a candidate knows what the examiners know, not what the candidate himself knows; they stifle medical progress by "withholding approval of the new by insistent emphasis on expert knowledge of the old"; they become "partners of static and reactionary, albeit powerful and respectable, inertia or ignorance." Dr. Gregg's suggestion: pick specialists by their competence in practice...
...Static. Koons sold the steel, at $215 a ton, to a Cleveland steel broker. It rapidly passed through two other brokers "around the grapevine" until it was bought by Louis Golden, a Detroit broker. Golden paid $300 a ton. On paper, the steel had traveled from Detroit to New York to Cleveland and back to Detroit, and $200 a ton had been added to its price. Actually it never left K-F's warehouse...
House league standings remained static yesterday as the Lowell quintet wound up its schedule with a decisive 53 to 31 win over the Leverett Bunnies. Capitalizing on their first breaks and board supremacy, the Bellboys steadily added to their early lead to clinch third place on the court ladder. Fred Donehoa registered 23 points for the victors...
...techniques are still varied and far from smooth. Some telecommercials are as outdated as the nickelodeon's between reel slides: static, leering mink-coat models or unwinking concentration on a bar of soap. Some are working along promising lines: most admen admire Lucky Strike's cartoons and its battalion of animated, marching cigarettes...
According to Harlan T. Stetson, director of M.I.T.'s celestial research station at Needham, this is the worst year for sunspots in 200. And sunspots do not only cause static, radio blackouts, and northern lights, but also extremities of weather behavior...