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That is precisely the spirit that the first of the stopwatch-toting efficiency experts, Frederick Winslow Taylor, condemned in 1911 as "the greatest evil with which the working people are now afflicted." In a yard where laborers were loading 12½ tons of pig iron each aboard flatcars every day, he taught one worker named Schmidt to load 47½ tons by changing the movements he used to lift the 92-lb. bars and the speed at which he walked to the flatcar.* Taylor's ideas were expanded by Frank Gilbreth, who contended that there must be "one best way" of doing...
...Winslow R. Briggs, Biology; Paul M. Doty, Biochemistry; Nicholas Bloemberger, Dept. of Engineering and Applied Physics (DEAP); Andrew M. Gleason, Mathematics; Henry Ehrenreich, DEAP; Edwin E. Moise, Mathematics; Edgar B. Wilson, Chemistry; Bruce Chalmers, DEAP; George Wald, Biology; Elias J. Corey, Chemistry; Charles W. Burnham, Geological Science; Jerome S. Bruner, Psychology; Gerald Holton, Physics...
...Winslow Briggs, Biology Malcolm Gillis, Economics Herbert Levi, MCZ Thomas Pettigrew, Social Relations Paul Weaver. Government
...eighth inning Cook got first on balls, stole second, went to third on an error by Williams and reached home on Wiggin's two -bagger. Dickinson flied out to centre. Scannell struck out, and Winslow flied out to short...
...eighth Trenchard hit safely and reached second owing to Whittemore's muff of Corbett's throw. Ward then knocked a hot liner to Winslow, who made a beautiful catch and, running to second, reached there before Trenchard, who had started for third, could return...