Word: largerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman Airliner, both new developments. Each can carry 20 passengers and each shortly will make a transcontinental demonstration tour. Largest of course is Consolidated's new Admiral. Its wing spread is 100 feet, its body 60 feet long. Its twin motors carried it last...
...early directors, its collection contains great numbers of specimens which are unique and could not be duplicated today. The only other museum of almost equal age, which consequently had much the same possibilities, the National Museum in Washington, having unfortunately suffered from a disastrous fire which destroyed the larger part of its collections, the Peabody Museum stands today in a class by itself among the anthropological museums of the country, and is certainly one of the great museums of the world in this department of science. Its collection of North American archaeology and ethnology is unrivalled. Its Central American, Mayan...
That snake bite poisoning can be counteracted by a horse serum was discovered 25 years ago by Dr. Albert Calmette of the Paris Pasteur Institute. He injected first small doses of cobra venom, then increasingly larger doses into a horse, progressively the horse's blood developed proper antibodies. That horse's serum cured cobra bites-if used promptly, for cobra venom kills very quickly...
...ordinary American is not rich. . . . Salary or income may be larger than that of his opposite in England, but his expenses are bigger; and that is why, were he living in England, his wife could have one servant, possibly two of them. . . . Certainly her children are a help to her very soon. . . . By the time he [an American boy] is seven years old he is a handy man in the house, with chores to do, which he really does. Then take the little girls. . . . At the age when her little English cousin is having her hands washed...
...Mercantile Trust Co. and the National Bank of Commerce, both in St. Louis, made dickers last week, preliminary to a consolidation. Effected, the merger would form a bank, as large, perhaps larger, than the present "biggest" First National Bank of St. Louis...