Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this seemed wonderful and not a little of chemical prestidigitation. However, monsol, a coal tar derivative, is not different in source and relatively no different in effect from several other aniline dyes tied chemically to antiseptics. The German doctor Paul Ehrlich imagined their theory in the 1880's, applied chemical knowledge and after 20 years invented salvarsan, specific against lues.* This is a yellowish powder composed of arsenic and hydrocarbons. It is a selective poison for spirochetes. By creating it, Dr. Ehrlich founded a new science...
...together by Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale and 50 times more powerful than carbolic acid) and many another. Many of them can be injected directly into the blood stream. Practically each week brings reports of new ones in the scientific periodicals. Their bases are tar, distilled from coal and modified according to the need of medicine and the will of chemistry. Monsol is another of their family...
Alfred Moritz, another son, took up the industrial side, preparing himself by a thorough course in law. After his many corporations were thoroughly organized, for he early diffused his energies into metal making, coal mining and gas producing, he stood for parliament and won his seat. For most English gentlemen, politics are a duty. For Sir Alfred (he was created baronet in 1910), politics have been a duty and a tool. They gave influence to his affluence. He was one of Lloyd George's Liberals; became First Commissioner of Works, then Minister of Health in Lloyd George...
...nine years he played at the Hippodrome, damaged his reputation by trying to tell their friends how funny he was. "He just comes out," they said. "He sort of comes out on the stage and moves around ... he looks so funny . . . and his shoes, well they look like broken coal shovels . . . you have to see his face ... it makes you laugh. . . ." Marceline hated to be called a clown in those days. Clowns are the silly fellows in the circus who get guffaws by contorting their inane rubber faces, by painting big spots on their cheeks and putting putty on their...
...change is easy reckoning. The fate of most governments is decided upon their conduct of domestic affairs. Has Mr. Baldwin failed? According to many, and Conservatives are numbered among them, he has. These critics point out that the "P. M.'s" dilatory attitude during the general strike and coal strike cost the nation millions of pounds. More important, since the strike virtually nothing has been done to force the mine owners to reorganize their industry-the most badly needed reform in the country, by common consent...