Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rocks that comprise the area can be gained by observing with suitable devices the distribution of current. A convergence of flow lines into a good conductor can be readily detected, and even the effects of better conducting material at considerable depth can often be estimated with a fair degree of assurance. Of course, all masses of rock in the earth that are good conductors are not necessarily bodies. Barren graphitic slates rock beds soaked with salt water, or basic dikes might give effects not unlike more valuable bodies and skillful geological observation and interpretation of the evidence in terms...
With a vicious criticism of the Interstate Commerce Commission, he mentioned as an instance that the Pennsylvania Railroad is regulated under laws which permit neither advancement nor a fair return on capital invested. A greater degree of freedom would allow the railroad to put its plans through more effectively, since it would be unhampered by restricting laws...
...subject of reconstruction. It is to be hoped that the question will be ultimately decided not on the basis of feeling but on the basis of an intellectual understanding of the problem and a judicious weighing of the advantages and disadvantages of various attempts to control what all fair minded persons acknowledge to be at the present time a great evil. Every civilized country is trying by one method or another or control the evil of drink. We are trying a somewhat more drastic experiment than any other. It is really the greatest social experiment of modern times and deserves...
Precious. Complete and unassumed inanity is often the means whereby pretty women entice money out of old and stupid men. On this despondent theme, James Forbes (The Famous Mrs. Fair, The Show Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young...
Engaged. Helen Wills, 22, holder of U. S., English and French tennis championships, fair-to-middling painter; to Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story...