Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiments with electricity and the nerves and muscles of the legs of frogs gave rise to "galvanism" and kindred terms. But it was not until the end of the 19th Century that Bologna again made a contribution of truly world-wide proportions. After the sausage came wireless telegraphy, whose founder's marital vicissitudes loomed in the press last week as his works do every week...
...Inventor Lee De Forest of the U. S., subsequently of 'phonofilm' fame). In pro nouncing his decision in my favor, Judge William K. Townsend of the U. S. Circuit Court was at pains to dispel all doubt as to whether or not I was actually the founder of wireless telegraphy. In a magnificently flowery peroration, quite appropriately Latin in feeling, His Honor pictured me as a fearless forerunner, embarking courageously upon a limitless sea of Hertzian waves...
...Robert Baden-Powell: "While South African Boy Scouts were acclaiming me at Johannesburg, Transvaal, last week, as the founder of their movement, I collapsed. Said Lady Baden-Powell to newsgatherers: 'Sir Robert is just worn out. There is nothing organically wrong with...
...disastrous overconfidence in past methods and trade processes, whereas U. S. "industry has grown precisely because it has the highest scrapheap in the world." The machinery in one New England textile factory averaged 23 years in age. One shoe factory kept making high buttoned shoes because "Uncle Ezra," founder, had done so. Industries should balance their manufacturing schedules to run evenly the year through. They should diversify products.* Above all they should analyze their customers' wants and satisfy them. But all is not stodginess in New England. Many individual concerns have adjusted themselves, notably the ship builders. As soon...
Colonel Huger of South Carolina tells the story of his attempt at rescuing Lafayette from prison in Austria. Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...