Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial work given Freshmen during the last half of the year should be a mild dose indeed. The main function of the system would be to familiarize the student with work in a field of concentration, so that one of the weakest spots of the tutorial system as it now stands, that of switching back and forth from one field to another, would to some degree be mitigated. If the Freshman were allowed to select his field of concentration in January instead of in the spring, he could find in his tutorial work from February to May an interesting purgatory...
...tensile strength of human tendons, Alfred Eugene Cronkite of Stanford University took 294 tendons from corpses, stretched them between two receding clamps, noted the reading on a beam balance when the tendon broke. Experimenter Cronkite could find no clear correlation between tendon strength and age, cause of death or function of the tendon. In general the strength varied between 9,000 and 18,000 Ib. per sq. in. of cross section. One tendon from an 85-year-old man stood up under nearly 30,000 Ib. per sq. in., about 10% of the tensile strength of steel piano wire...
Almost axiomatic is the belief that jobbing is doomed as an economic function. The wholesaler, runs the argument, will be inevitably squeezed to death between chain-store competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than...
Wise money is backing the Crimson to win because of their 5-1 defeat of the St. Paul's team which downed the Eli hosts 10-0. A lot will depend on how Captain Austie Harding and his sharpshooters function...
From Vienna, where he had read of the Congressional appropriation financing U. S. Peace Commissioners for winding up the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wisecracked in 1899: "At a public function in a European court all foreign representatives except ours wear clothes which in some way distinguish them. . . . But our representative appears in a plain black swallowtail. . . . It is found in all countries; it is as international as a nightshirt...