Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While the mechanical part of a machine that would do the work was by no means an easy task, the greater problem was to have the molten glass of the right consistency (viscosity), ready to feed the machine continuously. The individual glass blower could use his eyes and judgment regarding the quality of the glass, but a machine requires its material automatically, of proper condition and quantity, otherwise the product will be defective. At that time, glass was more or less an empirical product, evolved from tried formulae, but subject to any number of variations in its physical properties...
...fairly claim for the plan that it reflects our best judgment of what the settlement ought to be, arrived at with the advice, not of the governments, but of the peoples, functioning through the press which modern communications have made instantly effective in every interested country in the world...
...this change does not solve the problem. It is still necessary to determine the relative weight of weekly papers and midyear and final examinations. In order to arrive at a correct judgment upon the total record in a course, a value must be assigned to each of its components. Unless the final grade is to be no more than a rough approximation of the true value of the work done in a course, a unit of measurement must be adopted and all letter grades recomputed in terms of that unit. For example, how much weight should be assigned...
...Lingelbach, of the University of Pennsylvania, and in his course on the most recent period he will discuss such topics as the peace treaties, the League of Nations, Republican Germany, Soviet Russia, Nationalist Turkey, Italy and Fascism, War Debts and reparations. A notable opportunity to obtain the best European judgment on psychological problems of the mentally deficient and child guidance is offered through the courses to be given by Dr. Leonhard Seif, Director of the Seminar for Individual Psychology and Child Guidance Clinic in Munich, Germany...
Richard Corbett assumed the responsibility. He gave his suffering mother a narcotic. Then he shot her through the head. Next he shot himself, but lived. Last week he was in the hospital at Hyeres, reluctantly alive and detachedly wondering what state and social judgment would be on his matricide. He wrote a long letter to Le Matin, outstanding Paris daily, explaining his deed, admitting his "guilt," urging that, come what might to him, the law be changed. "I regret nothing," he said...