Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critic Boyd is too Sensitive to Be Earnest in Public...
...paper of the tax figures of individuals chosen at random from long lists of names published. Thus, the Baltimore Post's alleged offense was in making known the payments of five separate citizens, to wit, the Messrs. Daniel Willard (railroad man), Waldo Newcomer (capitalist), and J. Cookman Boyd, Leon C. Coblenz, Frank A. Furst (small tax-payers). None of the individuals had protested their treatment by the papers to the Government...
...Eagle with Captain Hargusson and went up and down the Mississippi. That is about all. Mark Twain, conjurer, used to tell about the Mississippi; and every page or two, he would come out from behind his screen and have a cigar with the reader?or a drink, maybe. Mr. Boyd does not use tobacco, in a literary way. His style is as impersonal as the river, and as grave. But, on that unlaughing surface, a boat is reflected, slipping down the river under a moon like a golden poker chip; people on board eating, drinking, fighting, making love?ladies...
Among the renowned were: Sir Robert Robertson, chief Government chemist of Great Britain; Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell; Sir Max Muspratt, onetime Lord Mayor of Liverpool, foremost British indus- trial engineer; Dr. J. S. McHargue, head of the Kentucky Agricultural Station; T. A. Boyd of the General Motors Corporation; Professor H. Steenbock, chemical research head of the University of Wisconsin; Professor E. C. C. Baly, famed savant of the University of Liverpool. In the chair was Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, President of the Society, a man who invents. He has discovered processes for the separation of copper and cadmium...
...proper wavelength of the violet ray must be ascertained. It is roughly gauged at from 200 to 220 millimicrons.- If all the land were bread and cheese, and all the sea were ink, what would we do for gasoline? This was the general proposition discussed by T. A. Boyd and C. M. Larson, Manhattan scientist. "Petroleum," prophesied the former, "will be obtained in the future by cracking cruder grades of oil. The continuance of automobile transportation depends upon the perfection of cheap and efficient methods for doing this." Said Mr. Larson: "Oil waste must stop. Motorists who now drain good...