Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to some observers the Metropolitan Subway system in Paris is the most efficient subway service in the world. Entering, one buys a ticket, the price varying according to the class. The ticket is punched at the entrance to the platform, the agent regulating the number of people passing him to avoid overcrowding on the platform. Many of the stairways are divided; people entering go down to the right, those leaving go up to the right. The wide subway doors are all on the side, usually three of them, so that the cars can be emptied and filled rapidly. Doors...
Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith opened the Fair with a speech broadcast to radio audiences all over the East. He received a picture of himself sent by A. D. Cooley's new photo-radio system. The picture was converted into sound waves; the sound waves were recorded on a dictaphone and "played" for radio audiences. Said the Governor: "The changing intensity of the sound corresponds to the shading of the picture. I guess that loud part is my nose. Now you know what it sounds like to look at my face." The National Association of Broadcasters, assembled at the Fair...
...once carried gold-dust from the San Francisco mining camps. There were, great behemoths, now in use to pull freight or passengers; G-3-d engines, the most powerful in use on the Canadian Pacific; the John B. Jervis, new Delaware & Hudson locomotive, using the new water-tube boiler system, weighing 314 tons, the King George V (biggest locomotive in the British Empire), sent down from Canada for the show...
...high school and college training has been made, this time by Henry W. Holmes in the Atlantic Monthly for October. His article, called. "Chaos or Cosmos in American Education", praises Harvard's method of study--the concentration and distribution scheme that bewails with vehemence the absence of this same system in the junior high and preparatory schools...
...intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable set of Harvard crockery. Both will be remembered as unique differing not so much in kind as in degree...