Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great deal of nonsense is written and talked about organization which is only a long and ugly name for common sense and hard work woven together in collective effort. There are two standard works on Organization which have stood the test of time the Proverbs of Solomon and Aesop's Fables. Every human transaction falls within their compass...
President Coolidge proclaimed the treaty in force forthwith. This particular treaty was negotiated as a sort of "test case" to determine the form of similar treaties to be made with other nations...
...motion pictures by radio within a building. The A. T. & T. engineers say, however, that the possibility of transmitting action pictures of ball games, riots, prizefights, parades, etc., directly is almost negligible. Fifteen photographs in all were transmitted from Cleveland to New York on the first day of the test - all within two hours. The actual time of transmission for a 5x7 picture was only 4½ minutes. There were several portraits, including a group of three men in the Cleveland office. This picture was taken by flashlight (owing to a cloudy day) at 3:59 p. m. The film...
...education as are the efforts of the School itself. After an apprenticeship of sixteen years, during which the Harvard Business School has been an outstanding influence in business education, it has been accorded recognition by one of the country's foremost business men. It has passed its most difficult test, and has become the subject of an enlightened interest, not only because of the value of its service, but also because it has informed the public of its purposes, methods, and achievements...
...present instance, the experiment was obviously not conducted with the proper attention to detail. The prisoner was a man of mature years, and was doubtless confirmed in crime; a long record of misdeeds should have suggested to the meanest intelligence that he was not the ideal type for a test case. Also, being familiar with police methods, he may have surmised that he was being invited into a trap; and acting on the theory that he was being given rope with which to hang himself, he determined no doubt that his moral demise should at least be accomplished with eclat...