Efficiency

Examples

• This, in turn, has opened up possibilities of much higher speed and greater efficiency in the machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The power and efficiency of a dynamo are increased by employing the devices previously mentioned in connection with the motor. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• How shall we secure breadth of outlook without sacrificing efficiency of execution? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The feature of importance in the cannon which contributed most to its efficiency was the rifling of the bore with spiral grooves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The first development was along the lines of this form of saw, and to increase its efficiency the saws were arranged in gangs, so as to make a number of cuts at one pass of the log. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The aim of efficiency (like any educational aim) must be included within the process of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His untiring energy and great efficiency during the campaign entitle him to a full share of all the credit due for its success. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocution Office that had gradually led to its having something to do with everything. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Jury of Awards, in presenting four medals to the Edison company, took occasion to pay a high compliment to the efficiency of the system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one-sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To these inventions might be added many others which have increased the efficiency and production of the business world and have decreased the labor and strain of domestic life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The ratio of yield to consumption is the expression of the efficiency of the machine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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