Word: drives
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little by a mechanical arrangement. The powerful current, in overcoming the resistance offered by the air, heats the carbon tips to a white heat. In the incandescent lamp the resistance is offered by a filament of carbon encased in an air-tight glass-bulb. The current required to drive an are light will drive twenty-four 16-candle incandescent lamps...
...skill of the laborer. A maker of gunny-bags here found that he could compete with the maker in India who only paid 12 cents a day for wages. He said further that if he could get his raw materials free, he could send his goods to India and drive the manufacturer there out of business by underselling him. Mr. Brooks once gave the facts of the tax on Chilian copper to some working men, and let them work out the results. They soon came to him and said that the tax had diminished our exports to Chili by four...
...They dictate to their employers, whose business they strive to rule; (b) they have sanctioned violence, and even aided in murder; (c) they persecute non-members; (d) they prevent the employment of capital, cause stagnation of business, and, hence, great loss of wealth; (e) they drive many of their members to crime and dissipation through loss of employment.- F. W. Taussig on south-western strike in Journal of Economics, Jan. 1887; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13, 1887: Nation, Vol. 42, pp. 338, 401, 402, 418, 440, 441; also Vol. 43, pp., 469, 470; Boston Herald, March 21, 1886; Bradstreet...
Thursday-Final business session, morning; drive through the city, afternoon. Banquet at Grand Pacific Hotel at 8 p. m., at which George E. Plumbe will be toast-master and the speakers will include Frank H. Hurd of Ohio, George Z. Erwin, ex-speaker of New York State Legislature, Judge Julius S. Grinnell of Chicago, and Charles H. Beckett, formerly Secretary of the Council and author of the popular novel "Who is John Noman...
Harvard went first to the bat, and found that Bingham's delivery was to be faced, since he had been leaned to the visitors in the absence of Richard son. The only special feature of this innings was Willard's treacherous drive to right for a home run. For the visitors this inning, as well as the next three, proved to be unfruitful, only two men reaching bases in the entire four innings. In the second the crimson showed a net earnings amounting to two runs, accruing from a single by Boyden, and a vicious four-bagger to left field...