Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DAVIS P. HARDING
†lnto his Cabinet in 1921 Harding brought what he called "best minds." After a decade Secretary of State Hughes is Chief Justice of the U. S.; Secretary Mellon still sits in the Treasury; Attorney General Daugherty is a political outcast; Postmaster General Hays is cinema tsar; Secretary of the...
Miscellany. And then there were a great number of miscellaneous items: nasal sinuses displayed by Warren Beagle Davis of Philadelphia. Harrison Stanford Martland of Newark's pieces of radium-rotted bones. How mites which live on rats transmit typhus fever, by Jesse Bedford Shelmire Jr. and Walter E. Dove of...
Invention had promised succor for just such a disaster. In the U. S. Lieut. Charles Bowers Momsen and in England R. H. Davis have each invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece...
While in the Yellow Sea the British rescue forces were frantically hunting for oily bubbles which would show where the Poseidon lay, one man popped to the surface. Then another. The Davis "lung'' had served them well. But the compressed air which had ejected them like torpedoes from the Poseidon...