Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank of the Atlantic Ocean. Albert Davis Lasker, chairman of Lord & Thomas and Logan (erstwhile Lord & Thomas) is head of the advertising agency which numbers among its accounts American Tobacco Co., Radio Corp. of America and many another. Once an $18 a week messenger boy in a Chicago agency, he now has a private barber shop in his agency office. Every morning he seats himself in a Koch barber chair...
...prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social irritant, which excited dark newspaper head lines: "The objects of the sciences are more ideal than the objects of the churches; their practices are more Christian. When in the fullness of time there is a family of the nations, when each will give according to its ability and receive according to its needs, when war among them...
...diagnosed the situation, twc great oil generals were rubbing their hand; in anticipation of battle. One was Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, head of Royal Dutch Shell, who from across the sea has kept his eye upon the progress of Shell in the home grounds of Socony. The other was Charles F. Meyer, President of Socony who from a vantage point nearer at hand has watched and waited...
...until mating time, when whales throw caution to the waves, splash and frisk on the surface, leap over and dive under each other, bumping and slapping in great loving tail-thwacks that can be heard for a mile.* At this time the shark darts tormentingly about the whale's head. When the whale opens his mouth to bite, the shark snaps at his tongue, holds him submerged until drowned. Then, to the anger of whale-lovers, the wasteful shark eats only the tongue before searching for other victims...
...sold in tins. In Tokyo, the tips of whale tails are considered the height of delicacy. The Arctic Right Whale, once valued at $10,000 each because of the fine corset stays it yielded, is no longer greatly desired, is practically free to cavort, make love, furiously batter its head against steel vessels...