Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great, big get-together . . . mingling in friendly contact . . . learning the difficulties with which each other has to contend . . . comradeship . . . better understanding . . . engaged in a fight for a common cause...
...nature pure iron is scarce. In industry it is practically useless. But alloys of iron when they are hard, flexible, rust and corrosion-resisting are vastly important to modern civilization. To discover new and better alloys, to manufacture the known and useful ones is a paramount concern of such great companies as Central Alloy Steel Corp., Ludlum Steel Company, Krupp. But their research and manufacture are for their particular business. Man may enjoy the benefits thereof but the company of course profits by the company's knowledge. Last week, however, the Engineering Foundation initiated a fiveyear, non profit-making...
...England town-crier cried false reports, he would be placed in a ducking stool, soused again and again to the applause of those whom he had gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The Great") Woollcott deserved to have his pudgy body tied to the end of some modern ducking stool and to be plunged screaming into some terrifying bath. For either Crier Woollcott had broken all rules of good town-crying and good reporting, or John Joseph Pershing had worse than weaseled...
Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...
...double effect of drawing attention to himself and upsetting his antagonists; he is intensely superstitious, wears two good luck medals around his neck, and has embroidered on all his sweaters the talismanic image of a small dog sitting up, which he says was given to him by "a great lady of Czechoslovakia." Having left his dog on the sidelines, he began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him. For two sets Richards, pale and imperturbable, saw the ball...