Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this "landslide'' be a lesson to the young salesman who thinks he can sell his wares by criticizing the other fellow. May it show the immoral that they are the unfortunate few. May it teach the foreigner that the Americans are still in control, and "may it once and for all proove (sic) to the Vatican that we do not want to confuse religion with our government...
...George Christian. The Harding Cabinet was being selected, under much political stress & strain. The Christian-Lawrence version of Harding's remark: "George, I've just got a hunch that it's the best thing to do and a big thing to do -to pick Hoover. This fellow can be a big factor in a big constructive way in this reconstruction period...
...What gets most on my nerves is the hollow mockery of it, to raise between heaven and earth, the emblem of Christianity, as a defiance to a fellow citizen, the Executive of a great State. As far as I am concerned, I would sooner go down to ignominious defeat than be elected to any office in this country if I had to have-if to accomplish it I had to have the support of any group [the Klan] with such perverted ideas about Americanism...
...Fang Lai, Chinese research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, last week reported that he had found a good use for beryllium, one of the rare earth metals. By substituting beryllium oxide for soda lime silicate he has produced a harder, more refractory, more transparent glass than the usual kind. It lets the sun's ultraviolet light pass through...
...Dept. of Commerce. He was recalling the ancient and modern history of the commodity of rubber. Columbus, exploring the island of Hispaniola, was the first to see natives playing with balls which seemed to bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat. And in 1839, U. S.-born Charles Goodyear dropped rubber (mixed with sulphur) on a hot stove...