Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First president of Johns Hopkins university was a geographer. His name was Daniel Coit Oilman and during his 25-year term he made Johns Hopkins' graduate departments a yardstick for every university in the land. Last week Johns Hopkins' trustees elected a fifth president. He, too, is a geographer, His name is Isaiah Bowman...
When the average room price of at least $200 is used as a yardstick, it compares on a basis of absolute equality with the charge for attractive "apartments with Kitchenette" in Cambridge. These houses themselves were outright gifts, and there are no taxes. In contradistinction, the apartment owners have to provide for capital outlays and taxes. With this comparative advantage in upkeep charges, the least the College can do is to provide an adequate staff for the care of rooms. The self-congratulatory phrases about drastic economics and shakeups should not conceal the fact that there is such a thing...
...Chapter 1934 of the great visitors book which men call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
...crazy patchwork of operating areas and a mass of independent, unrelated generating units." Remaking that map, the Committee would bring cheap electricity to every home by Federal coordination of all power transmission not only in the Valley but in the entire U. S. Lining up with the Roosevelt "yardstick" policy, the Committee was nonetheless careful to point out that such unification would not necessarily mean extension of Government ownership. It would, indeed, benefit the private producer by eliminating duplication of plant and equipment, creating a larger and steadier market, opening up new sources of energy. But: "During the next...
From the White House went a statement that the report "establishes a yardstick on rates for the Northeastern area of the U. S. which can be applied to every city, town and rural community in connection with the development of the St. Lawrence River as a public power project." That statement left no doubt about the real purpose of the Walsh report. When President Roosevelt brings up the St. Lawrence Waterway treaty again next year, the Walsh report will serve as a rolling barrage of statistics to clear the ground for Senate ratification...