Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be used to supplement the present collection with books published in America and the Dominions. The new library will be distinctively a library of the literature of the British Commonwealth and the United States. The special Parkin Library, in memory of the late Sir George Parkin, will form a part of this collection...
Enthusiastic Mrs. Hoover further said: "I think Girl Scouting is the best form of self-expression there is for a girl. That is why I give so much of my time to it. There are plenty of other things I could play about with if I did not consider this the most worth-while...
Pondering this outcome, students of U. S. race problems reflected that 95% of all U. S. Negroes are descended from slave stock, some of which has been in the U. S. even longer than genuine Mayflower stock. They also reflected that, whereas U. S. Negroes form 14% of Gary's population, U. S. whites form 36%, foreign born whites form 50%. Thus a large majority of Winfield Eschelman & friends were-if representative of Gary's population-descended 14% from Slavs, 10% from Poles, 4% from Hungarians, 3% from Austrians, 3% from Croats, 3% from Italians, 2% from Germans...
...years ago, M. Sensaud de Levaud, French inventor, knew this. Since then, he has been tampering, tinkering, planning, pondering and putting together bits of metal which in final form turn out to be a sensible automotive vehicle with no middle parts to fuss over at all. The motor transmits propulsive force directly to the rear end without intercession of transmission gears...
Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...