Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shone in local affairs; since 1920, for example, the tax rate of Maryland has been decreased thirty percent. The State has today an authoritative credit of one hundred percent, and in this Maryland is unique among the 48 states. Locally, therefore, Ritchie is strongly cheered; his economies and shrewd conduct of the business of the State have increased his hold on the citizens of Maryland...
...Reverend Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Theological School, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
...from Italy (some 4,500 mi.) Arturo Toscanini will travel next month to conduct in Manhattan a single concert for the benefit of unemployed musicians. The news put Philharmonic subscriptions back at a premium last week. Ordinary reassurance had failed to down the rumor that he might never return...
This unique research will start on the elastic and other properties of rocks. For example, how do rocks under great pressure conduct heat? This is something fundamental in the study of earth transformations. To prosecute the study Professor Bridgman has some remarkably powerful little machines. They consist essentially of thick, steel-jacketed cylinders carefully cast and precisely machined. The hydraulic pressure which oil puts against pistons in the cylinders is presumably less than the pressure upon things deep within the earth. Yet the man-made pressure changes the nature of elements. Thirty-nine of 48 pure metals which Professor Bridgman...
Faber. In 1761 Fabers began making pencils in Bavaria. In 1849 they sent Eberhard Faber to the U. S. to conduct the business. In 1861 he quarreled and started Eberhard Faber Pencil Co. His son & namesake represents the fifth generation of pencil-making Fabers and is famed in the industry although he is vice president of the company while his brother, Lothar, is president. He is chiefly active in the sales department now,, Lothar in manufacturing...