Word: babbittism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senor Patiño's customers the most important is the National Lead Co. whose principal business is to make things out of lead-such things as painters' materials (Dutch Boy Paint), babbitt metals, piano key leads, storage battery oxides. Important alloy of lead is tin, without which many of the most widely used lead products (such as solder) could not be made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps...
Other leaders in the Humanist movement, said Religionist Potter, were Irving Babbitt, Walter Lippmann, Paul Elmer More. Evidently he referred to Babbitt's, Lippmann's, More's cultural attitude, not their religious faith. Paul Elmer More, ( philosopher and critic, is a devout Episcopalian. Said he: "I utterly repudiate Potter." Walter Lippmann said: "No connection whatever." Said Irving Babbitt: "His use of word humanism has almost nothing in common with mine...
...front of a church. As a partial result of this event her husband inexplicably received a medal from the local prince. Although the comedy is at times heavy and overplayed, in the approved Teutonic manner, it is at other times genuinely funny. Best shots: how a Bavarian Babbitt behaves in his office...
...poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted to hit at the European bourgeois, who [is becoming] . . . more 'American' than most inhabitants of the United States. ... Mr. B. W. Smith is less 'Homo Americanus' than 'Homo Americanisatus.' " Excerpt...
...more than half the world's consumption. Tin is used mostly in combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making of tin-plate from which comes the familiar tin can. A tin can consists of about...