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...same order. And not only do the section men assert their independence in the matter of order, but they also differ in their exams and teaching technique. On the one hand there are men who make every effort to teach, to clarify the subject to even the slowest student; on the other hand there are those who merely lecture, treating any question as an inexcusable interruption. Of course the mathematical genius can learn under any system, but for the average student the question in class is the most important single factor in making the subject understandable...
Irrespective of their individual hearing abilities, dogs learn most quickly how to avoid shock and guinea pigs are slowest. The scientist found one genius of a guinea pig, however, which learned what to do after only one experience...
...Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well our 20th-century business highway! Let us crucify the thieves, as Pontius Pilate would have done had he been attending to his job. But do not ordain that everyone moving along on his lawful occasions shall conform his pace to that of the slowest and worst-equipped blunderer...
Money expended on any construction project is 85% labor when traced through to the source of the materials. The Department of Labor says each man on contract construction under the commendable Ickes' WPA program meant 3½ men working. Construction, the slowest of the great industries to recover, is operating on less than 50% of normal volume. If it were on a normal volume basis, it could employ 2,500,000 more men than it is now using. This, singularly, is the number now on "relief...
Another factor affecting totality duration is that the shadow travels slowest at noon, fastest near the beginning and end of the eclipse day. Earth rotates eastward at about 1,040 m.p.h. at the Equator. The moon's eastward orbit carries the lunar shadow in the same direction at just about twice that speed, so that it rapidly overtakes the terrestrial rotation. At noon, when the shadow is perpendicular, the speed is 1,060 m.p.h.; earlier and later, when the cone of darkness impinges at an angle, it goes faster-depending on the acuteness of the angle...