Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists of the famed German optical company, Carl Zeiss Works of Jena. The completed instrument will be set up in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Manhattan. Like doctors and bacteriologists who study diseased tissue, metallurgists will be able to determine exactly what happens internally when a metal gives way under strain...
...Bacharach was the veterans' hero, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon logically became their villain last week when he wrote a strong public letter objecting to this bonus legislation. The gist of his argument was that the Treasury could not stand the financial strain. Predicting a $500,000,000 deficit next July (last estimate: $350,000,000), he declared the measure created "a potential liability of $1,720,000,000"-that is, if all veterans borrowed to the limit. The Treasury, he explained, had some $772,000,000 securities in a sinking fund reserve to pay off the bonus...
Unlike the celibate and sour Menzhinsky, Yagoda is married, happily it is said. About one quarter of the G. P. U. staff in Moscow are women. They are on the whole, more cheerful than the men, upon some of whom the strain of ceaseless office intrigue appears to have told grievously...
...country for every young man that can afford it to go to college. Under these conditions there is a tendency for the intellectual standards of the university to be lowered to meet the capacities of the average student. Also boys of excellent character, though obviously unfitted for scholastic attainments, strain during their whole school life to get into college and then find it most difficult to stay there. The results are that the American universities no longer develop the best minds to their maximum degree, and many men who are not fitted for a scholarly life waste several years...
Those undergraduates who once underwent the strain of "college boards" will undoubtedly be interested to hear that these examinations have been scrutinized by the Department of Personnel Study and grave doubts cast as to their efficacy. Albert B. Crawford, Director of the Department, comments on them in his recent report to the President, and points out that there is a remarkably low degree of correlation between college board examination grades and the records in Freshman year. He emphasizes the fact that predicted scores, or "bogeys", based on various school and entrance records, are really a more accurate method of determining...