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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Nominates 55 for Council; Results Will Be Known by Feb. 6 | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...Winslow Briggs, Biology Malcolm Gillis, Economics Herbert Levi, MCZ Thomas Pettigrew, Social Relations Paul Weaver. Government

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard University | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Defeats Princeton, 10-4 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Defeats Princeton, 10-4 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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