Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The theoretical man in the street will find the Outline an easy and informative introduction to the best that has been written in every language. It will not educate the uneducated nor furnish, in itself, a royal road to learning, but within its scope it is valuable and, as far as space allows, complete. Readably written, though without any touch of distinction, its obvious merits should bring it wide and deserved popularity. It will set no mind afire, in all probability-but then, the most valuable mental eruptions are generally produced by spontaneous combustion...
Arrangements were made with the city of Rochester to furnish motor cars to take the delegates to that city after the convention, there to pay a tribute at the grave of the late Susan B. Anthony, long one of the leading champions of woman's rights. It is worth while noting, however, that at the time of the convention of 1848, Miss Anthony was not yet a convert to the ideals espoused at that meeting...
...least one of the ships will be towed, in order to furnish a moving target. Experiments will first be made with light tear-gas bombs-with men aboard the ships...
Ivan Petrovitch Pavloff (Pavlov of Pawlow-take your choice of Russian transliterations), physiologist, Nobel Prizewinner and indubitably the most distinguished living scientist of Russia, sailed from New York for France, July 14, on the Majestic, after a series of mishaps that would furnish plot for a modern Comedy of Errors. He had been in America three weeks, but few, even in scientific circles, knew it until he was about to leave. Pavloff has no stomach for publicity. Scarcely had he set foot on our soil, in company with his son, Dr. Vladimir Pavloff, a professor of physics, who studied under...
...Northern Sakhalin is sold to Japan, Sinclair's much-discussed oil concession there will of course be worthless. The whole episode would furnish a worthy theme for a novel by Oppenheim. Sinclair's attempted penetration of the Russian oil fields follows the development project undertaken in the Baker petroleum district by the Barnsdall Corporation, another American company...