Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purely nominal values, a few dollars a share. Both owners and strikers had rejected arbitration, had agreed without hope to allow the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation to '"investigate." So far as New Bedford could see, the strike might last until winter. If the strikers could find fuel, it might last until another summer, indefinitely...
Minerals for Diabetics. Analyzing insulin, whose active principle has not yet been isolated,* chemists find minute traces of cobalt and nickel, so some diabetics are now being experimentally fed with cobalt and nickel salts. Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples through the plant life eaten directly or indirectly (through herbivorous animals). Example: In Switzerland where iodine is rare, goitre is common. Feeblemindedness and dwarfism are therefore frequent. The recommendation of Dean Jacob G. Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture was that agriculturists go still further in seeking what proper...
Publisher Block is a specialist in friendship. The word itself, with all its synonyms, affects him strongly. "Friendship" is the name of his estate, and next month, when he boards his new private car (the first he has owned) for a vacation in Maine, he will find "Friendship" lettered on its sides. Almost, friendship is a secondary business with Publisher Block. On his office desk lies a small brown leather book, stencilled "A Deed a Day." Here his secretary eagerly inscribes the Block benefactions: $5,000 to Commander Byrd, $10,000 for a new cathedral, $500 for the widow...
...looked, stretched out like a giant blowlamp rearwards over the seat occupied by Elwood Hosmer and beyond the rudder and tail. In the darkness the whole machine must have appeared like a grotesque red comet. The whole situation seemed like a nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload. As I drew out of the dive I saw the glow reflected on the wave crests...
...struck us unexpectedly with terrific force and the wind, with a velocity of forty to fifty miles, made us heel over so that the gauge registered 25 degrees. The lee rail was buried under two feet of water. "I was sleeping soundly at the time, but awoke suddenly to find myself lying jammed up against a bureau across the room from my bunk. The reason for this rude awakening was that I had been thrown clear over the canvas strip attached along the bed to prevent just such an accident. . . . "The slant of the boat was so great that...