Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Committee. It shows that the House Committee's business has a lot more to do with your business, and your roommate's business, that most non-alarmist people probably realized a few days ago. And anybody who could help the House Committee to extend its business in this way automatically discredits himself as a political figure, at least among those people who object to House Committee investigations of the Thomas variety...
...some distorted accusations, and this may he another of them; on the other, members of the YRC Planning Committee have conceived of peculiar methods in the past, and Bingham is a member of the Planning Committee, and the test-balloon idea is therefore not extraordinary. But no matter which way it finally comes out, this sub-quarrel will only add one more lie to the pattern of underhandedness, bitterness, and dangerous, and dangerous naivete that has characterized the entire affair, and the characterizes too much of politics as practiced by Harvard undergraduates...
City law also prohibits parking on the left side of any one-way street, upon any sidewalk, upon any crosswalk, more than one feet from the curb, less than ten feet from a fire hydrant, or in front of any private road or driveway...
Precept & Example. In Alhambra, Calif., the city was getting through its "safety month" campaign in fine shape until two police cars collided. In Dayton, Audrey Jackson, on her way home from a traffic safety lecture, suffered a broken leg when she was hit by a taxi...
...pretty uncertain. Back in 1936 a Missouri elementary school ran off an experiment which discovered that students working under "adequate" lighting got 20 percent better grades than a control group. But a follow-up at an Ohio Western Electric plant, corelating production with lighting, went the other way: workers, believing the light was improving, jumped their output enthusiastically as the illumination was cut to around that of moonlight. It has been determined, however, that lighting of the College's present caliber will inevitably cause fatigue and a loss of efficiency...