Word: billing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...estimated that 1,500,000 tons of coal, needlessly burned, would now be available for use if the turn-the-clock-ahead bill, of which Senator Calder is sponsor, had been passed in time to have been in operation during the spring and summer months of 1917. The estimate is that of the United States Chamber of Commerce, based on Daylight saving being in effect "only for the shortest period that has been suggested and at a time when there is least need for artificial heat and light...
...thought just, according to the average of their receipts for the years 1915, 1916 and 1917. This power was placed in the hands of Congress, to whom the President has now turned for such additional legislation as will enable him to carry through his program, and an administration bill with that end in view has been presented to both Houses...
...meditate whether our Krag is capable of putting us out of our misery, there is reason for happiness. There is no Bursar's bill till February and Phillips Brooks House has ceased plundering us, at least for the time being. Moreover, Christmas ultimately will come and with it days of rest far from the reach of U4. So we may garb ourselves in the one suit we hid from Max and trudge merrily to our nine o'clock to make Sever once more echo to the famous words: Not prepared. There is still something for which to be thankful...
...circumstances were as follows: Bill arrived in Pau from Avord on Sunday evening, September 11, and on the following morning he reported at the school. He immediately began his training on an 18 metre Nieuport, single control. This was the last type of machine he had flown at Avord and it is the first type taken up at this school. After a few short flights to demonstrate his ability and to learn the machine, he was sent up for practice in spiraling. For this you ascend to 1,000 metres and from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres...
...fore, this time in a speech in which he attempts to explain his position on the question of the war. Certainly, in the minds of most Americans, his position needs a lot of explaining. Since the declaration of war last April he has consistently opposed every act and bill in Congress which would have assisted the country to wage this war. The fact that he has been able, in advance, to take the opposite side on every question and proposal brought before Congress shows that he is the proud possessor of a mind of unusual perspicacity. Ordinary humans, trying...