Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill raising Civil War widows' pensions to $40 per month (from $30); sent it to the Senate...
Came the news from Budapest to Paris. Unhappy Acting League Council Chairman Tcheng Loh found himself a helpless victim of the alphabet. He was the wrong man in the wrong place. He speaks for a nation where wholesale smugglery of arms has produced incessant civil war. The very "Chinese Republic" from which he stands accredited at Paris has vanished in a welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office...
Because aeronautical engineers are at the very front of motor development, Lester J. Hendershot, young Pittsburgh civil engineer working for the U. S. Topographical Survey, secretly presented his new type electric motor to such men at Pittsburgh, Detroit and Manhattan last week. Without any connection to any apparent power store, the machine ran for hours. The energy came, said the inventor, from the electricity accumulated by the earth in its daily and yearly rotations. Quite probable, acknowledged physicists, but not more of that planetary charge can be continuously tapped to operate more than a toy motor. Frankly skeptical, they awaited...
...close of the Civil War, Farmer Hiram was a failure. He loved to raise apples. But his apples rotted. His farm went to ruin and unrepair. The harness fell apart. Inventor Everest, always of a studious, enquiring drift of mind, tried some of Mr. John. D. Rockefeller's newfangled Pennsylvania fluid called petroleum on the harness. It softened, unstiffened. Manufacturer Everest built a small still near his barn, made harness dressing, sold it, prospered a little, but was utterly ruined by a patent suit establishing that somebody else had previously made harness dressing in the same kind of still...
Presenting what it is believed will be one of his last lectures at Harvard, George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, Emeritus, will talk in the Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Professor Palmer will speak on "Selfishness" in the ninth of the series of lectures on religion sponsored by the Graduates associations...