Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert John Gary, 61, vice president & general counsel of New York Central Lines; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was a longtime foe of Federal railroad control, successfully defended (1926) his company's right to absorb the C. C. C. & St. L. ("Big Four...
...evening shadows grow longer The Vagabond heads earlier for the big chair by the fire where mid clouds of smoke his dreams glow like the ruddy embers on the hearth. Quiet dreams they are--peaceful reflections that are needed to absorb a day of helter skelter educational scurrying...
...deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets of his bank. But if he, in the course of his purchases, lets any individual player accumulate more notes than he has assets, the bank is broken...
...dreamily predicted Chicago's Robert G. Guthrie, nominated to succeed Cleveland's Zay Jeffries as President of the American Society for Steel Treating, sponsors of the Congress. Mr. Guthrie's prediction followed his exposition on special furnaces in which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew...
...King resists the attempts of his Cabinet to deprive him of the right of veto. In the second, he talks tediously with his mistress. In the third, he is approached by the U. S. Ambassador and informed that the U. S. wishes to return to the British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus to his Queen: "America is a nation of wops talking about the Pilgrim Fathers ... it is a world of wops." The consensus of Malvern audiences...