Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special complaint that was lodged against the present administration of the stands was the lack of attractiveness and efficiency that has characterized the conduct of the concession under the management of graduate school men. Each year two men from the graduate schools have been appointed to head the Stadium concessions and it is felt by the H.A.A. that with a professional caterer at the head more efficient service can be given...
...Manhattan John McCabe was jailed for disorderly conduct when his wife testified: "He came home drunk, struck me, and ate a $5 bill just to aggravate...
...Independence, Mo., the Church of Christ (Mormon offshoot) wound up its general conference by unfrocking Elder Samuel Wood, onetime member of the Quorum of Twelve. His offenses: rebellion against church rules, "unChristian" conduct in Quorum session, heretical preaching that the Godhead is One instead of Three...
Describing a shore leave expedition of 13,000 sailors of whom only five were subsequently found guilty of disorderly conduct, the angry Admiral asked: "Can you imagine 13,000 young college men, say, from Yale, Harvard, Columbia ... or any body of business men . . . having such an excellent record? . . . I trust [the picture] will not only not be allowed to be hung in the Corcoran Gallery or in any other, but that it will be immediately destroyed...
...they lent well but not wisely and were ruined when he decided not to pay his debts. So when William III needed money in 1694 the Bank of England was created, the bank lending him ?1,200,000 in return for the right to issue banknotes and conduct a general banking business. The South Sea Bubble nearly ruined them in 1720. The early success of the Young Pretender (Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II) started a run in 1745. Napoleon's wars forced them to suspend payments in 1797. But the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street...