Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, with several bearded senators. A blast furnace intended for melting silver was started, and into it workmen shoveled paper which had once been valued at the par equivalent of $4,000,000. The blazing heat and tedious length of this ceremony were deemed by physicians unsuitable to the health of massive Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, aged...
...thus predicted, the Ambassador did resign. He called on President Coolidge at Custer Park, requested relief from his post in a formal letter: "It is with deepest regret. . . has been a great privilege . . . great honor. . . your wise comprehension. . . unfailing kindness . . . generous support . . . . With my earnest wishes for health and strength in the carrying on of your great burdens . . . ." To which the President replied: "Your formal letter . . . has been received. . . . Your services. . . able and distinguished. . . sincere appreciation . . . courage and ability . . . I shall always feel under obligations to you. . . ." Relieved, the Ambassador remained at the State Lodge for a few days, planned...
...World's Series of 1919) there was rivalry, warfare between the new baseball head and the old. The conflict had apparently come to an end as far back as January, 1927, when after an undisguised Landis-Johnson falling out, President Johnson's indefinite vacation was announced-his health, which was undoubtedly bad, being given as the reason (TIME, Jan. 31). With the opening of the present baseball season (in April), President Johnson attempted to resume active control of his league's affairs. Evidently he found the task tasteless. His resignation last week was unexpected for there were...
Officials of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, having learned the health value of special window glasses that permit the passage of ultraviolet sun light (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1), ordered 18 stories of their new bank building now going up at Broad & Wall Streets, Manhattan, glazed throughout with this glass...
Said Vice President Lyman Rhoades last week: "We are told that our installation is the first instance in this country where a skyscraper office building will utilize the scientifically-established health benefit of the sun's vital rays. ... If the exigencies of business rob its men and women of natural physical advantages and if science perfects means of returning the stolen goods, it seems to us to be the duty of business to admit the theft and to make amends by acceping the contributions of science. If we were to view this move solely as an investment, on which...