Word: closes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hobgoblins minced and Giants lumbered inside a very old Philadelphia building last week. The building, a small brick one, stands on Independence Square, close to Independence Hall. A label calls it the Hall of the American Philosophical Society. A large group of learned men, philosophers in the old sense of searchers after truth in any of the sciences, including natural history, heard the tread of the Giants and Hobgoblins...
...oxidation. They all create the potential. It is the electrical charge on the cell which permits the cell to adapt itself to changes. Oxidation occurs only in the presence of the charge and in turn creates the charge. After his observations, Dr. Crile believes that he has come very close to an explanation of life itself...
...Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse than Russia ! Next day in the House of Commons rash Pixie Snowden, still defiant, received a Conservative broadside. Sir Austen Chamberlain was present and rather more than close to tears. He has said frankly in the past that he loves France "as a man loves a woman." "Mr. Snowden has used a most offensive term!" cried anguished Sir Austen. "A most offensive term about a friendly nation - our nearest neighbor - describing them as 'bilkers!' An offensive...
...health of the rising generation, or for the health of woman in her later years, comparable to seeing that proper care is taken of her in her confinement. A great physician told me, recently, that if this were done in every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage. The present rate of maternity mortality and the amount of sickness among mothers point...
...Wall St.) will boast Manhattan's first electric quotation board. This device, which will separate many a "board boy" from his $15-a-week job, mechanically marks up prices as swiftly as the new tickers, giving five quotations for each stock: the last night's close, day's opening, high, low and latest. As the ticker registers a quotation, an operator in the central station of the Teleregister types it on a keyboard. Each depression of the key sends an electric impulse over the wires to the brokers' boards. Western Union, 60% stockholders in the Teleregister...