Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average person wrongly guessed his time allotment for the following day by a total of five hours. Men were better prophets than women, married people better than single. A steady increase in accuracy of prediction was noted with advancing age. Subjects earning $40 to $50 per week guessed what they would do better than those earning less or more. There was a general tendency to overestimate the time devoted to reading, chatting, cinema and other recreation, and to underestimate that consumed by humdrum activities-sleep, work, rest, transportation, shopping, personal care. Protestants predicted themselves better than Catholics, and Catholics better...
Casualties. To the coaches, Professor Floyd R. Eastwood of New York University, who has been compiling statistics on the subject for five years, read the results of his investigation of football deaths and injuries. In the 1935 season, 30 players were killed, five more than in 1934. There were 55,440 injuries to players on 66,000 high school teams, 9,900 injuries to players on 829 college teams. Injuries caused footballers to lose a total of 1,000,000 days of education...
...question of silicosis last week caused a wrangle in San Francisco, where doctors, lawyers, miners, mineowners, insurance men, legislators, public health agents and fuss-budgets met to argue the pros & cons of a disease which has lately taken the public spotlight as the subject of bitter industrial controversy...
Foreign problems will be discussed by leading authorities on the subject during the fourteenth annual Foreign Affairs School, under the auspices of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters and Radcliffe College. The school will be in session at Agassiz House beginning on Tuesday, January 21, and lasting three days...
...college is Hiram and the "system" is based on the continental method of giving the student his education in concentrated form. The plan calls for the pursuit of one subject at a time, over a period of nine weeks. For instance a student takes up the study of political science and pursues no other course but this one during the nine-weeks period. During that time he receives what is ordinarily the equivalent of a full term course...