Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlanders the whole question of precedence and social rank in Washington seems silly. But as a British diplomat once said (with Irish logic): "Since the good God made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence...
...because he felt that no man could, in that office, give the people the best service for longer than eight years. He had been told that the Kansas City nomination was his for the taking. He felt that his re-election was "assured." Yet, obedient to a desire to get back to the people, he said, "I-do-not-choose-to-run" in South Dakota and followed that up by despatching his secretary to the Republican National Convention to tell the leaders of unpledged State delegations not to vote...
...remained the unenvied head of a Government supported on the one hand by the Army and Marshal Pilsudski, but constantly menaced and savagely attacked in Parliament by ever-changing permutations and combination of Poland's 50 active political parties and organizations. Assuming that M. Bartel manages to get his resignation accepted, after all, likely successors to the Prime Ministry include M. Stanislaw Patek, now Polish Minister at Moscow, Minister of Education Kazimierz Switalski, and Director Goretzki of the Agricultural Bank...
...ergot is of inestimable value in obstetrics. Its extract contracts the uterus and arteries, stops hemorrhages, raises blood pressure. Good ergot saves the lives and bolsters the health of hundreds of thousands of women annually. But bad ergot may contain poisons which cause abscesses and kill. U. S. pharmacists get their raw ergot from Spain, Portugal, Poland and Russia...
...fuel oil and air are sprayed together into the cylinders and exploded under 1,000-lb. pressure. Burmeister & Wain, Danish motor builders, have redesigned a Diesel which uses oil under 5,000-lb. pressure and takes in its air on the cylinder down-strokes. No time is needed to get up steam, as in the locomotor (15 min.) or the usual locomotive (30 min.). Operating cost is, by report, one-fifth that of ordinary Diesels. The unit is 10% to 15% lighter, and powerful enough to draw a train. Danish railroads are testing it. Three new Danish ocean liners...