Word: tools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irritating criticism of Dreiser and others--that Americans cannot think--is partly supported by facts. The automatic tool, in the use of which a man repeats one motion over and over, has proved a powerful agent for fostering sub-normal intelligence--and strangely enough, really puts a premium on under-developed minds. The normal or highly-educated man does not perform mechanical tasks as expertly as the half-wit, so the latter flourishes and multiplies...
RHODE ISLAND: The Providence County Jury refused to bring an indictment against newspaper men charged with libel by former Governor Robert L. Beeckman. One headline quoted was: "Beekman and his tool caught in open bribery with payment of $1,500 to Democrat...
...moral of the entire case is that the courts will not hold any lawyer guilty of unethical conduct solely because a client of the lawyer succeeds in using him unwittingly as a tool for fraudulent transactions. A lawyer is responsible only for his own honesty -not for that of his clients...
...Life is a tool, to handle as we will," declared Dean C. R. Brown, D. D., of Yale, in a talk to 200 Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "Here is a knife of keenest tempered steel. In the hands of the surgeon it is a means of saving life; in the hands of the assassin it becomes a fatal weapon. The tool itself is useless, it is the guiding intelligence behind it that counts. So it is with our lives...
Through the courtesy of the National Acme Company of Winslow, Vermoni, the Industrial Management Department of the Business School is able to show a five-reel film of machine tool factory operations at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Pierce...