Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dynamizer," connected by an elaborate wiring system with a "rheostat dynamizer" for amplifying the reactions, a " vibratory rate rheostat" and a "measuring rheostat" for determining the wave rate "ohmage" of the specimen. These are connected to an electrode on the forehead of a healthy human being, called the " re-agent," who stands stripped to the waist and barefooted on two metal grounding plates. The doctor "percusses" the abdomen of the reagent, i.e., thumps the back of his left hand with the middle finger of his right, on which is a weighted thimble. The abdomen normally shows a "line of dullness...
...replace the regular schedule of train connections between New York and Princeton by way of Princeton Junction, the railroad plans to maintain constant service between New York and Princeton, direct. According to the Boston Passenger agent of the Pennsylvania system, trains will be constantly waiting at the Pennsylvania station in the morning after 8.45 A.M. and each train will be dispatched directly to Princeton as soon as it is filled. Returning, the trains will leave Princeton as they are filled. The first express trains for New York after the game will be drawn up in the middle train yard, which...
...That (this in following charges by Elias H. Mortimer of Philadelphia) he got a "loan" of $5,000 from Mortimer, without security; Mortimer was acting as agent for several construction companies who were anxious for contracts on veterans' hospitals...
...undecided as to what their future vocation will be. The lectures and conferences carried on last year under the auspices of the Committee on Choice of Vocations were a good beginning. Harvard has recognized the existence of a real need and has created a Committee to act as Hason agent. But the work of the Committee must be continued and extended if its end is to be attained...
...pity and derision of the others and on the whole manages to bear it well; and in fairness it must be said that the role of gullible husband is a thankless one. As Tarlow, the perfect lover, Mr. Darney is indisputably good, doing double service as the final agent of the forces of justice and as a never failing source of comic relief. Miss Roach his a hard task as the heartless thief of love and husbands and does it well; alternating with grace between the gracious lady and the unfeeling gold digger. The rest of the caste, Mark Kent...