Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparatively, the university is a free agent. It sets the standards and consequently bears the responsibility of keeping the standard as high as average human intelligence permits,--or perhaps even a little higher. Future generations may bemoan their sad plight of being born into a world a whole C ahead of their ancestors' but the natural result of the raising of university requirements will inevitably be the tightening up of secondary school requirements and a boosting all along the line of a sagging elementary school system With this done, college work in spite of increased vigor will probably be less...
...Vechten Olcott, Manhattan lawyer, testified that he had been approached and asked to furnish $10,000 to be appointed a Federal judge, and to pay $25,000 additional when the nomination was confirmed. He declared that no beneficiaries were named, except "the boys." ¶ A special agent of the Department of Justice testified that his investigations had been blocked when he started to dig too deeply into certain alleged War graft cases. ¶ Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the late Jesse M. Smith, continued her miscellaneous testimony. Her most sensational remarks dealt with a "deal" in which five men made...
...Beat the Yanks!" makes no sense, of course. There is no race between the American and British airmen. Colonel L. E. Broome, advance agent of the British expedition, had indeed suggested a race. But General Patrick, U. S. Chief of Air Service, very wisely refused to accept the challenge. To speed the American flight would seriously strain the equipment and increase the hazard of our gallant officers...
...that historic achievement of Morris Gest's early career when, as publicity agent for Oscar Hammerstein, he proudly brought back from Europe a "stolid Berliner and his wife, sister and daughter, whom Gest bedecked in Moslem costumes, instructed to pray ostentatiously to the East every day on the boat coming over, and covered with fleeting fame by having them rejected at a Broadway hotel where they had tried to register as Abdul Kaffir and wives...
Wildiers discovered over 20 years ago that the micro-organisms of yeast will grow rapidly in beer wort, but not in artificial media. He called the unknown agent of growth "bios" in a book called La Cellule. In 1916 Dr. Williams suggested that the substance previously called Vitamin B was identical with Wildiers' "bios." Extracts of some substances known to be rich in B stimulate yeast growth, and many substances have been tested for yeast stimulation as a means of measuring their B content...