Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason enough for palliation. Certainly the Union authorities should consider the welfare of the knights of the pen who daily make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable to attend in person. The cost of alteration in comparison with the confidence that the Union does not lag in the move no matter how great will be moderatement toward better press boxes...
Last Straw. There are two ways of relating supply to demand. One is to cut down the supply. The other is to increase the demand. At the paternal Sugar Institute, last week, plans were on foot to assemble an army of researchers. To their official attention had been called a fact and a question. The fact : Sugar, a hydro carbon (C12H22O11) is the only organic chemical which is manufactured chemically pure on a tonnage basis. Hydrocarbons are easily broken down. Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, may be taken from them, forming new and different hydrocarbons. Possible uses of sugar...
...first business training was with Brother Gus (Claus August) in the Philadelphia refinery. For his second effort, he and Brother Gus went into business on their own account. They bought, from Father Claus, one of the Hawaiian plantations which they had remade into an efficient enterprise. Suddenly Father Claus cut off all money for further development. The family row shook the banks of San Francisco, but at length they found the money. When Son Rudolph was 26, he sold the plantation and prepared to retire. He had gratified his ambition. He was then a millionaire...
...Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time. Said Father Claus: "No other man has beaten me once...
...Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural position and prevented it from falling in. So artful were the operations and so secretly done that the country, panicky over money, knew nothing...