Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some of my friends have been trying to at least get me to powder my nose, but I won't even do that...
...industry, to the assets of his bank. But if he, in the course of his purchases, lets any individual player accumulate more notes than he has assets, the bank is broken and the bank-breaker becomes Banker. Mean while players can buy and sell among themselves, each trying to get as long suits as possible, for the more units of each suit a player holds the more the banker has to pay for each unit. (For one Brickyard a player can get $10; for two yards, $40.) When the banker buys up all the cards without being "broke." the standing...
...would be 50% of the sun energy fused.* Professor Goddard calculates that such an engine would produce 30 h.p. while operated under a clear sky between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., when sunlight is strongest in the U. S. If storage batteries were used, the owner could get an average of 4 h.p. per hour day & night, all year around...
...operator whose large underground oil reserves might be diminished through lack of gas pressure, this is an ideal arrangement; but to the little producer who wants to get his oil just as fast as the gas will push it out of the ground in order to pay off his costs and begin to make money, it seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent...
There are so few hospitals where a woman physician or surgeon can get an important post on the staff that the professional members of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children raised a vigorous clamor last spring when their institution seemed about to be dissolved. Last week they were cheering, for friends were raising them $3,000,000 to build a 21-story hospital. President of their board of trustees and chief of the money-gathering squadrons is Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, wife of the onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank, since last month the world...