Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...required by law. The presence of 600 guests will cost the Government only $6,000 and will be worth more than $1,000,000 in advertising. The object of the trip is to give the Leviathan 20 or 30 trials at various speeds over a measured mile course to furnish her master with accurate data on the efficiency of her new oil engines and work out a "performance curve" which he may use in maneuvering his vessel. The mile course requires special conditions; it must be close to land so that accurate measurements of speed can be made; it must...
There was a day when actors walked upon the stage in their street clothes?or almost. But that was before the day of mud-sprinkling trucks, before the day of chorus girls, and before the Actors' Equity Association made the producer furnish costumes. When Shakespeare spoke of Cleopatra's infinite variety, he was not thinking of her wardrobe. But Flo Ziegfeld?what a different effect would light up his imagination...
There will probably be another time-trial for the University crew tomorrow, which should furnish a more authoritative basis for comparison with Yale than has been available to date...
...multitude of alumni who, beginning Saturday and continuing until Tuesday, will flock back to their former habitat will furnish to those about to join their ranks an object lesson in the attractive power of class feeling. They will show the value of joining early the existing graduate organizations in order not to miss anything. But aside from personal satisfaction alone there is, as Mr. Wadsworth points out, the duty of joining. Traditions, policies, material help have emanated from the organized alumni and the members of the University, having benefited by these priceless gifts owe in return at least the service...
...labor problems are taught, and two hours of manual labor daily are required. The graduating class was made up of members of seven different unions and it is expected that these and the graduates in years to come will rise to leadership in their unions. Thus will the college furnish forth the ranks of labor with leaders who know the history of the movement and who understand its problems...