Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They discovered that in infection "band-form" cells sometimes increase as much as 25%. But in muscular exertion the increase is all in the ordinary white cells. Leucocytes furnished a good yardstick of energy production and exhaustion. Comparing one form of athletics with another disclosed that football is the most strenuous of all, with the possible exception of the 25-mi. marathon. During two hours of football, the ball is actually in motion only eight minutes. In that time the player burns up energy at top speed. Researchers Wood and Edwards discovered that the average leucocyte increase is nearly...
...Bingham's exceedingly frank and clear-out statement of the inner details of Harvard's athletic budget provides an almost staggering yardstick measurement of the place of football on the credit side of the ledger. Football this year is estimated in the budget as costing the Association the round sum of $330,991, a figure slightly larger than that of the Harvard College library for the same period. Of course not all of this money is spent on supplies and wages alone. Nearly two thirds of the football expenditure goes as guarantees to the visiting teams. Subtract the guarantees from...
Yale is news-worthy. It is a good yardstick against which to measure Dartmouth. Many of our sins fade by comparison. There is a desperate uniformity about Yale men, a class-consciousness that manacles them to the dubious destiny of middle class fortunes rather well. And of all American colleges Yale is easily the most sentimentalized of the nation, the essence of collegiatism poised against the erudition of Harvard and Chicago. Tradition has a special holiness at Yale which renders it immune from criticism. It is a good thing? Ah, well...
Nobody knows what Russian production costs are. They are figured in rubles. Nobody knows what a ruble is worth in gold, the only true yardstick...
...search for this "yardstick of space beyond the stars," to an unrelaxing effort to calibrate it ever more accurately, Dr. Michelson has devoted 52 years. In its pursuit he has literally turned the light on light, made it disclose new truths: about stars so huge that the earth and its whole orbit could be dropped in them and lost; about the ether; about the mysterious place in the universe toward which the sun, all the planets are hurrying at terrific speed...