Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GUSTAV LINDENTHAL Jersey City...
...building nearby, the inventor's oldtime laboratory, every plank and gadget of which had been brought to Dearborn, Mich., from Menlo Park, N. J. Ruminantly chewing tobacco as he inspected, Edison scuffed the dirt floor with his toe. "Why, Henry's even got that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with his old tools, fabricating a replica of the first incandescent electric lamp, switching on the current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling over...
...first debate of the year will be with the New Jersey Law School at Newark, New Jersey, on Friday, November 8, the week-end of the Michigan game. The team will leave Cambridge on Friday, debate that evening, spend the next day in New York City, and return by boat on Sunday night. All expenses of team members will be paid...
...system of debating will be that of split teams. Two men from Harvard debate with two men from New Jersey Law School as the affirmative team, and two Harvard men debate with two others as the negative team...
Continental Chronicle. Neither ancient nor humble were the Continental Can beginnings. In 1913 three sizable companies-Continental Can of New Jersey, Export and Domestic Can of New York, and Standard Tin Plate of Pennsylvania-combined to form Continental Can Co., Inc. During the next 13 years the company prospered but only in 1926 did Continental Can begin absorbing smaller companies with the steady monotony of an expanding corporation. In the last three years the company has acquired 14 manufacturers scattered over the country. Some of these make tin plate (sheet iron plated with tin) from which cans...