Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consistency (viscosity), ready to feed the machine continuously. The individual glass blower could use his eyes and judgment regarding the quality of the glass, but a machine requires its material automatically, of proper condition and quantity, otherwise the product will be defective. At that time, glass was more or less an empirical product, evolved from tried formulae, but subject to any number of variations in its physical properties, of which we had but little conception. To produce a glass which in its molten condition would feed a bulb-blowing machine with unfailing speed was a problem in the solution...
...brought large quantities of liquor into the country." The Count de Polignac is in charge of foreign agents for the French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president. Often he travels in Canada, in South America, less often in the U. S. Last summer he was in Algiers. Arrested with the Count last week was one Philip Gowen who, according to M. de Polignac "was American agent of my company from 1904 till the Prohibition Law." He alone of the 32 who formed the ''ring...
...sources yesterday. No reason could be ascertained from the college authorities for the unusual action of the clock in the past few days; but upon inquiry it was discovered that the unwieldy flight of a vagrant pigeon had disturbed the movement that has been continual for a decade or less. Workmen perched high upon the dangerous scaffold spent several hours in the effort to repair the damage caused by the misdirected ramblings of the winged wanderer...
...London, Conn., June 14. The Crimson oarsmen spent another comparatively quiet day yesterday with the crucial race of the season now less than a week off. With the most strenuous part of the training season behind them the University rowers will devote the next few days largely to polishing off their form and to bringing themselves to the pink of condition physically for their battle with the Blue next Friday...
...more reason for saying that the final examination counts for practically nothing than for saying that nine weekly papers count for practically nothing. The real question is this: is the final examination fairly weighted as equivalent to nine weekly papers? If you think that either more or less weight should be assigned to the final examination than is assigned under our present practice, I should be glad to know what change you deem desirable, together with your reasons. Sincerely yours, A. N. Holcombe