Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus exalted, John Lord proceeded to write melodrama and farce comedies for Broadway, not to be flippant but in all honest gusto. And it was then that he pursued and married Bernice Harden, icy and feline. After he had consumed the inner fire she had for him, turned openly to Eva Freyne, a hard worldling, and written his greatest book, Bernice forced him back to her and delicately smothered his life-until the War. What the War meant to him, and why he did what he did in an airplane, are his ultimate revelation, made by himself in a letter...
Going home, Mr. Adams pondered chicle's possibilities as a commercial rubber, but his subsequent attempts at vulcanizing (baking to harden) it, all failed. He tried to utilize it as a base for false teeth, but that failed. With $35 capital, Mr. Adams founded Adams & Son, chewing gum manufacturers, which merged in 1899 into the American Chicle Company, capital of about $2,000,000, producers of sticks of "health-giving, circulation-building, teeth-preserving, digestion-aiding, brain-refreshing, jaw-developing, soul-tuning chewing...
Though the government remained firm in its determination to jam through a suspension of the Seven Hours Act, the Labor party announced its irreconcilable opposition. Former Laborite-Premier Macdonald declared: "The Premier's speech was most disastrous,... will harden the miners into adamant resistance." Secretary "Emperor" Cook of the Miners' Federation apostrophized Premier Baldwin in a public speech: "You say, Mr. Baldwin, that you have no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Baldwin...
...Black, St. Andrews, chemistry at Yale; Margaret E. Cranswick, King's College, London, education at Columbia; Robert Fisher, Herford College, Oxford, economics at Yale; Isabella Gordon, Aberdeen and Imperial College of Science, London, Zoology at Stanford; Hilda A. C. Green, Westfield College, London, literature at Pennsylvania; Donald B. Harden, Trinity College, Cambridge and Aberdeen; archaeology at Michigan; Richard L. Lechmere-Oertel, Birmingham, mining engineering at Columbia; Edward P. Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California; Keith A. H. Murray, Edinburgh, agriculture at Cornell; George S. Pryde. St. Andrews, history at Yale; Clifford B. Purves, St. Andrews, chemistry at Johns...
...wholesome, upright, law-abiding students of Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh) were hurt?deeply and irreparably injured. Their beloved and respected head, Dr. Samuel Harden Church, in testifying against prohibition before the Senate Judiciary Committee last fortnight (TIME, April 26, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had implied that drunkenness and other evils existed among students universally and had failed to exclude his own Carnegie Tech from the condemnation...