Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage show is perhaps a bit above the State average and includes at least one skit which is bound to amuse...
...three mercenary revolutions were in full swing and everybody seemed to be taking a fatalistic view of the chaotic situation. The few educated Chinese I talked with complained bitterly of what was going on, but when they were asked why they themselves did not plunge in and do their bit to bring China out of it they shrugged and asked, in reply, what could...
...nothing new to point out the high price of fame and the high cost of being or doing anything the least bit out of the beaten path. For a long while, persons in one breath have pitied the great and the queer, and in the next have asked for more and more details...
...York, returned to the U. S. after inspecting medicinal springs in Germany, declared: "There were eleven men in the first cabin in the Berengaria who went to Germany to take the cure. They could have saved time and money by taking the waters of Saratoga and have received every bit as much benefit as they did abroad...
...hardening properties to a steel alloy until very recently. Pure iron is a relatively soft metal. A little carbon added yields hard steel. Steel plus a trifle of manganese gives an alloy hard enough, when fabricated into rails, to support heavy subway traffic. If with manganese steel a bit of molybdenum is mixed, the alloyed steel is still harder. G. M. Eaton of Molybdenum Corp. of America advised railroads to use the molybdenum steel for rails. It would support the heavier locomotives and trains that U. S. transportation is requiring. X-rayed Metals. Use X-rays for detecting blowholes, pinholes...