Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week said William Cabell Greet, 35, a tweedy, little, sandy-haired Columbia University professor whose great enthusiasm is U. S. speech. He had obtained records of radio speeches by the Louisiana Senator, the President, the editor of Today, many another New Dealer, to add to a linguistic library which now includes 2,500 disks recording the speech of Maine farmers, Southern mountaineers, Barnard girls, Thomas A. Edison, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith and Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...
...busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid. Nitric acid plus sulphuric acid plus glycerin makes nitroglycerin...
...also add that no San Franciscan ever called the Ferry Building the Ferry "House...
Significance of Drs. Wright and Moffat's research is that it supplies additional evidence that smoking increases the damage to the tissues of a person whose blood circulation is impaired. Diseases which smokers must guard against include angina pectoris, thrombo-angiitis obliterans. arteriosclerosis. But, cheerfully add the researchers, they have no whit of evidence that smoking causes such diseases...
...without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented his advertisement. Dec. 8, 1927, The Oregon Statesman, then published by R. J. Hendricks, now editor-emeritus, put peppermint into its ink to add zest to its "slogan page" which, that issue, dealt with the growth of the peppermint oil industry in Marion County. The peppermint so scented the press ink fountains that the odor continued through the editions for several days...