Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford drew a check lately-the first he had signed personally in about five years-for 2?. He gave it to a man who had helped him buy a postage stamp. C. Walter Randall, Manhattan attorney, last week called attention to Section 293 of the U. S. Code, passed by Congress the snowy day President Taft was inaugurated, saying: "No person shall make, issue, circulate or pay out any note, check, memorandum, token or other obligation for a less sum than $1, intended to circulate as money or to be received or used in lieu of lawful money...
Most of the Association's investigations are more technical, less popular, than the standardization tin-silk tests. The Association has, for example, established a national safety code for elevators and escalators, has developed specification and rating systems for refrigerators; a standard for drafting room practice, and a standard for uniform proportions in bolts, nuts and rivets, are more characteristic undertakings. The Association is essentially a manufacturers' rather than a consumers' body; its purpose is to define, not to uplift...
Ethics. Formally but with great enthusiasm was adopted a teacher's code of ethics which has been five years in the making. Salient tenets...
...business of American Marconi, which thereupon became defunct. Associated with General Electric were American Telephone & Telegraph, United Fruit Co., and Westinghouse Electric, of which only Westinghouse remains an important factor. Thus U. S. wireless became strong and vigorous, developed a three-second trans-Atlantic service, carried many a code message for many an efficient corporation...
...ability as a teacher, and of his true magnanimity in conduct, toward others, could have any other ultimate meaning. Yet we confess that we greatly prefer the terms in which he has now expressed himself. Gone are the phrases which served to remind one, even though unintentionally, of the code of that "great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On" portrayed in "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Gone is the emphasis upon trifles--passable enough in the informal surroundings within which the original speech was delivered--but necessarily out of balance when reported in print in the newspapers. In their stead...