Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building to sink six inches in eighteen years causes some concern at M.I.T. If the science of soil mechanics had been developed earlier, the sinking would have been uniform at least. In the Harvard Engineering School laboratory of soil mechanics, Arthur Casagrande, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, a former member of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, has carried out experiments with the most modern equipment that go far towards explaining the reasons for the settlement...
...legislation on old-age security. Organizations promoting fantastic schemes have aroused hopes which cannot possibly be fulfilled.* Through their activities they have increased the difficulties of getting sound legislation, but I hope that in time we may be able to provide security for the aged-a sound and a uniform system which will provide true security...
...been a full-time player, in the first six games of the season he accounted for 532 yd. or more than a quarter of Minnesota's total ground gained by rushing. Minnesota's greatest ground-gainer, he can run 100 yd. in 12 sec. in uniform...
...probationary nurse, seems more like a sentimental prospectus than a moving picture. That it fails to do the second may be because pictures like Night Nurse, Life Begins, Registered Nurse have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform can be counted on to perform superhuman feats of courage, loyalty, good humor, devotion to duty and dexterity with any item of hospital apparatus from an ether mask to a bedpan...
...favorable state of public opinion and to forward progressive legislation which is impossible under the psychology of prosperity. But too often, the President has concentrated control of such progressive action in the hands of the federal administrators under an erroneous assumption that all such legislation must be uniform. At this stage, when there is a wide divergence of opinion on many of the details of unemployment insurance, it is necessary for the states to experiment and to discover the system best suited to their peculiar needs. It is folly for the federal government to adopt uniform legislation which shall apply...