Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly...
...death of Professor Theodore William Richards of the Department of Science yesterday noon terminated a magnificent career in the course of which the acme of scientific endeavor was attained. Furthermore, it has inflicted such a blow upon the University as renders more eulogy superfluous. For Professor Richards had not only earned for himself a niche in the University temple of Fame, but was generally recognized as the foremost authority in the world in the field of atomic weights...
...reasons but with the effect, nevertheless, of making him seem an opportunist. And this effect is borne out by his shifting position on international relations. Once a sturdy Leaguer, he is now a hesitant World Court man, and suspected by newsgatherers of trimming his helm as the breeze may blow, off-shore or overseas. With all his other qualifications, he could well afford to speak out, in simple, declarative English on one or the other side of every so-called "issue" of his time. But he does not speak out. And it may be significant that most of the newsgatherers...
...make all the boots and shoes needed annually in America in about six months and you can blow all the window glass needed in America in seventeen days. You can dig all the coal necessary in six months with the men now in the industry. Because of our increase in population in the last eight or ten years it now should take 140 men to supply the needs of the country where 100 could do so. Instead of that and in spite of our having 20,000,000 more people, the needs of the country are fully supplied with...
...scurrying around the East Indies warning the Javanese and Sumatrans to beware Krakatoa. The small island volcano in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, is yeasting to explode again. Already it has drooled a small land mass into the adjacent water. At any time it may blow...