Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a congress of men of the type of Senator W. F. George of Georgia, the Constitution will be amended so as to cure the 65-year old wrong done the Southern people. The way should be opened to State legislation against the Negro. There is no longer excuse for evasion...
...Judd. a Yankee physician sent out by the American Board of Missions. For 14 years Dr. Judd ministered to the Hawaiians, body and soul, helping with many another missionary to persuade them from idolatry to Christianity. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii was so well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics and Episcopalians are merged in Hawaii as the Central Union Church...
...could produce an immediate effect on American opinion if we made clear, as we might have done long ago, that we have abandoned our naval bases in the Caribbean. In policy we have long recognized that the United States has a paramount interest there and it is time we demonstrated clearly that our strategy recognizes that fact...
...best. It boils at 675° F., instead of at 212° F. for water. At 884° F. pressure is only 70 lbs. on a gauge, at 1,000° F. only 180 lbs. Those pressures are sufficient to run turbines. After the hot mercury vapor has done its work by revolving the turbine, the temperature of the exhaust mercury vapor is about 435° F., enough to heat water into steam at about 300 lbs. pressure. That mercury-vapor-heated steam operates, in the Emmet machine, a second turbine until its heat falls too low to do more...
...little to fear, for Imperial Airways had carried 99,000 persons for 3,800,000 miles and except for one bad accident at the very beginning of its operations, had killed or injured not one person. While flying over the English Channel, as the City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck the water. The passengers were dashed to the floor. Heavy baggage in a rear compartment smashed through a thin partition and clumped upon the passengers...