Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheap silk ribbon is used as conveyor belts from two small electric generators to two 2-ft. copper spheres mounted on glass rods. The ribbons pass into the spheres through slits and over pulleys on cams within the spheres. At the generators, from copper brushes, the ribbons pick up small charges of electricity, one ribbon positive, the other negative. Entering the copper balls, the electric charges are taken from the ribbon (silk is a less good conductor than copper) and stored on the balls' copper surfaces. Large voltages accumulate quickly as the ribbons whiz through their slits, silent...
...Armenian Colporteur Mihran Balian "tells of a Turk who was heard crying out with a loud voice in the midst of a large crowd: 'May this Society live long! What a philanthropic Society! It is not concerned at all with politics and supplies the people with books at cheap rates...
...father's forge. Preserved Fish III shipped to the Pacific on a whaler, at 21 became its captain. Shrewd, he recognized a fortune lay in selling whale oil, not in getting it. He prospered as a merchant in New Bedford, had a political squabble, sold his property cheap, settled in New York. At the height of his business career he was one of the 28 brokers of the New York Exchange Board which later became the New York Stock Exchange. He controlled a potent shipping firm of Fish & Grinnell which had its beginnings in the attempt of Preserved Fish...
...this editorial has been quoted correctly, it is but another instance of the CRIMSON's customary rudeness and lack of tact. From this editorial, it would seem that the CRIMSON is definitely attempting to antagonize an honored rival and to attract cheap notoriety to itself. The CRIMSON charges that the lack of interest in the Harvard-Army game is evidenced by the apparent unwillingness of Harvard undergraduates to make the trip to West Point. Is the CRIMSON unaware of the fact that these are times of depression, and that many people, particularly college undergraduates, find it difficult to make...
There were articles on funeral prices, cut-rate practices, arrangement of the casket display room so that the prospect will not always select the cheap ones. Only once was the delicate (to the undertaker) subject of cremation mentioned; thus...