Word: pendulum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Neither athletics nor scholarship are wholly good or wholly bad. They are good when they occupy just that amount of attention needed for rounded development, and bad when they occupy either more or less...
...behind a screen. The screen is suddenly dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds by a pendulum chronometer and the error of the blow to the right or left of the center, is registered automatically. This apparatus makes it possible to test two qualifications most necessary for a good boxer, fencer, football or tennis player, that is, quickness of sight and accuracy of motor response...