Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill a town, pack a hall, and satisfy people who have paid good money to hear him hold forth. A student at a famous Mid-Western university describes the lecture system as "that process by which the contents of the professor's notebook are transferred by means of the fountain pen to the student's notebook without passing through the mind of either," and recently Mr. H.G. Wells declared. "There is no need whatever for any one ever to suffer or inflict an ordinary course of lectures again...
...area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped 20 mi. to Solvay Process Co. which uses it in its alkali industry...
Robert Winship Woodruff, 41, president of Coco-Cola Co. and White Motor Co., resigned the latter position, became chairman. New White president is Ashton G. Bean, previously president of Bishop & Babcock, Cleveland manufacturers of bottlers' and soda fountain machinery...
Throughout the week pious workmen, specially purified, were furiously busy building in the Fountain Garden of Chiyoda Castle the pavilion in which Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be delivered. The pavilion will contain a Waiting Room for His Majesty and Dr. Kirikuro Ikki, Minister of the Court...
...with a U. S. flag which he draped over the United Press doorway. ". . . The mob leaders, not wishing to cause a conflict with the U. S., stood by and ordered everything packed up lest it be damaged in the fire and flood which followed ... all we lost . . . was a fountain pen which was picked up by someone and a photograph of Julio Prestes [onetime] president-elect of Brazil [which was confiscated...