Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three days later, just after the bricklayer, clerks, telephone instructress, Juror Kidwell, et al. had taken their jury-box seats for the day, Lawyer Atlee Pomerene of the U. S. prosecution counsel announced to the court that he had grave charges to make, that some one had been tampering with the jury...
...entered their high-ceilinged meeting room. President J. Lewis Coath, melancholy-looking, thin-lipped, sat down on his dias, his subordinates at their desks facing him. In their impassiveness they resembled Indians at a pow-wow with white men. Superintendent Wm. McAndrew, on trial for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12 et seq.), looked at them with contempt. Another of his many intermittent hearings was about to commence...
...laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid or vinegar. If I were to enumerate all his successful reconstructions I should never...
...horsemen looked at one another in awestruck silence; for it was certain that an outlaw band of hostile Morroccan tribesmen had kidnapped M. et Mme. Yvse Steeg, M. et Mme. Jean Maillet, nephew and stepson and their wives of Theodore Steeg, French Resident General of Morrocco, the highest official of the Republic in the Morrocco protectorate. The party had gone ahunting...
...Presidents, kings, queens and-as despatches put it-"others of real distinction." Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was allowed to go quietly, almost unnoticed, through Chicago streets to breakfast at the Cliff Dweller's Club with Julius Rosenwald, John Tinney McCutcheon,* Samuel Insull, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, et...