Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More Smoke Screen. President of the society, Professor Samuel Wilson Parr pleaded for pure air. He found 80 per cent of present fuels guilty of producing smoke, thereby increasing heating costs by waste of combustible material, increasing cleaning costs, injuring merchandise, injuring health by screening off the ultra violet rays of the sun, and corroding the lungs with sulphur fumes. He dubbed the domestic chimney more dangerous than the factory smoke stack. The inadequate supply of anthracite has been the argument for burning bituminous coal, but bituminous coal can now be perfectly converted into gas and coke which...
Another result is the further enhancement of Mr. Sabin's prestige in international finance. His handling of one-half of one per cent of the British & North Irish issue was as weighty as Albert Henry Wiggin's deal the week before. Mr. Wiggin's Chase Securities Corp. formed the $10,000,000 Finance Company of great Britain and America Ltd. with Sir Alfred Moritz Mond's Imperial Chemical Industries (TIME, April 23). Both transactions enable U. S. capital to flow to England, and thence farther afield...
...drug will help all of the people all of the time. Mothersill's Seasick Remedy guaranteed "in every case" is sometimes efficacious; it contains, as its advertisement asserts, "no cocain;" instead it has 45 per cent chlorbutanol, a cocain substitute often used as a local anesthetic. Wise ones, when seasick, will consult a doctor...
...Senate, Georgia's Harris declared: "Ninety per cent of the post-office appointments, I believe, are sold in my state." Said Georgia's George, "The sum of the exactions made would be fairly staggering." "Ridiculous," commented Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. Then two Florida postmasters-Alvin L. Durrance of Frostproof and Leslie D. Roberts of Avon Park-talked of paying "levy" for their posts. Postmaster General New discharged them forthwith...
...cultures in the wells ate up all the cholera organisms, purifying the drinking water; the cultures administered by mouth destroyed all the cholera germs in the intestines, healing the sick. Even in grave cases where the patients were already moribund the mortality was cut down phenomenally. Sixty-two per cent of the cases that were not treated died, whereas only 8 per cent of the treated cases succumbed...