Word: cincinnati
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Before they can be admitted to their district conference, all Methodist ministers are asked, "Will you abstain from the use of tobacco and other indulgences which may injure your influence?" Last week, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the Rev. C. O. Green, Negro Methodist preacher in the Louisville, Ky. district, had the usual question put to him by Negro Bishop Robert Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object...
...American Chemical Society's convention last week in Cincinnati scientists told one another news of what has gone on during the last twelve months in the world's laboratories...
...P.E.T.N." is the short name for pentaerythritoltetranitrate, an explosive made from formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, nitric acid. It appeared as a laboratory curiosity during World War I, is no more destructive than standard military explosives, but has the great advantage that no glycerin is needed to make it. In Cincinnati it was reported that Germany, which is short of glycerin, is using P.E.T.N., if not for military purposes, at least for industrial uses, and so releases more of the glycerine explosives for use in shells, bombs, torpedoes, mines, depth charges...
...Metropolitan Opera has visited Cleveland, and become so popular that it now plays in Public Hall, capacity 9,400. Two years ago eight operas drew 68,000 people, an indoor world record. During the week, music-lovers arrive by special plane from Detroit, by special train from Pittsburgh, Erie, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit. Only 40% of the seat-buyers are Clevelanders. There has never been a deficit. Top price is the same as in Manhattan, $7, but there are 1,049 seats at $1. Among other cities on which the Metropolitan calls this year-Boston, Baltimore, Rochester, Dallas, New Orleans...
Said the grass-eaters to the American Chemical Society meeting in Cincinnati last week: "The use of only twelve pounds of powdered grass a year . . . will supply the necessary factors for a liberal diet to all U. S. families at a price they can afford for the first time in history." Once a vitamin is isolated or synthesized, researchers almost invariably find in it some long-awaited healing powers...