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...term Representative Blanchard '94 and Bates'19 of the Massachusetts Legislature broke into the news by charging that the University was under the iron thumb of big business: "Freedom of speech is dead while big business forces every scholar to say only what J. P. Morgan and his crowd permit him to say. Harvard succeeded in getting $5 million for the Business School, but it couldn't raise a cent to keep the greatest dramatic teacher in America...
...electric arm which Dr. Kessler described was made by International Business Machines Corp. The switches are operated by pressure of the toes. Electric motors supply power to bend and extend the elbow and wrist, to rotate the lifelike, plastic hand and to open and close the fingers and thumb...
While working at the Midvale (Pa.) Steel Works in the 1880s, young Taylor made a discovery: it was the workers, not the bosses, who determined the production rate. The workers could go only so fast because, having learned their jobs by rule of thumb, they wasted steps, motion and time. Using a stopwatch, Taylor found that he could determine the most efficient speed for every operation by breaking it into its component parts...
Like any other Negro kid growing up in the South, Boy got the idea very fast: white is right. But he was a serious youngster, and sometimes the useful rule of thumb became confusing. When, for instance, the local big shots gave him a scholarship to a Negro college, his faith in the white man soared. But at the stag smoker where the scholarship was awarded, the men he looked up to forced him to look on while a naked blonde did a lascivious dance, and the town's best citizens got haywire drunk...
Captain Eric Sollee placed fifth in the foil to lead the team, winning 24 out of 31 bouts. Harry Ziel fractured his thumb in the saber and had to default half of his bouts, while George McNair, epee man, and Sollee carried...