Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week steel-pipe makers rejoiced when Clarence T. Coley, operating manager of Manhattan's old and lofty Equitable Building, and his Chief Engineer Carl W. Poulsen announced that they had discovered a simple way to clear rust from the steel plumbing of their building. They drain the water off and force dry steam into the pipes. The heat makes the pipes expand, the rust shrink loose from the pipes. The steam is released and water flushes the rust away. The pipes become clean, although pitted, and thinner than when bought...
...Manhattan, few were surprised at the nature of the paintings.* Irishmen like Paul Henry see landscapes of mist-laden perfection and paint them so. Irishmen like famed poet-pointer AE (George William Russell) blithely romanticize the already romantic countryside. Patrick Joseph Tuohy's portraits seem both honest and clear, unusual in a day when much portraiture is either smart fawning or sincerity thwarted by theories. Irishmen, in painting as in most of their literature, evoke a racial charm like an opiate which lulls the cry for pro-founder genius...
...officials have disapproved of men who stayed only two years. While this has been a common view in this country and has perhaps been held by selection committees, it has never, I believe, been that of the Trustees and the present pronouncement is meant merely to make this clear. The Trustees have, in fact, often been ready to allow a Scholar who left at the end of two years to take the rest of his scholarship at some later date if he chose to return to Oxford. The scholars do not have to "sign articles" to remain any given time...
Indomitable Divines. Scottish clerical dignitaries vigorously protested, last week, against the scheduled date of the British General Election, May 30. They pointed out that from May 21 clear up through Election Day the minds of pious Scots will or ought to be engrossed in following the proceedings of the annual assembly of the National Church of Scotland. Campaign speeches at such a time could scarcely please God, reasoned the Scottish divines, and in both Edinburgh and Glasgow devout headline writers wrote...
...most illustrious and possibly the most devout of her warrior sons, the sole generalissimo who ever commanded ten million men in arms, the great and humble Catholic who reviewed his victory thus: "Without claiming the intervention of a miracle, I say that when, at a moment in history, a clear view is given to a man and he finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous consequences in the conduct of a formidable war−then I hold that that clear view, which I think I had in 1918, comes from a Providential Force in the hands...