Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase.? Instead he will probably make a trip to Cincinnati and Louisville for the formal opening of locks on the Ohio River. Oct. 21 he is due in Detroit to help Henry Ford and the Edison Pioneers celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb...
...only flaw in a perfect gastronomic symphony. The Chateau Haut-Brion of 1919 is definitely to light for the true connoisseurs of such heroic, full-bodied, red grands vins, and a surprising number of bottles of this year have not kept well...
...most appropriate uses to which a capitalist may put his capital is its employment in the field of electric light and power. He must be a potent capitalist, since an investment of millions is needed to turn the currents of rivers into currents of electricity. Once in operation, however, an electric utility is almost a natural monopoly with unlimited possibilities for expansion and a product equally essential to U. S. homes and U. S. factories. A power house is a match to light a thousand lamps, a motor to turn a thousand wheels...
Coach Horween sent his football charges through a few minutes of light scrimmage in yesterday afternoon's practice session on Soldiers Field. The four teams which compose the first University squad lined up against each other and ran through about a half dozen plays with no casualties or bruises resulting...
...tests to such a measure of success, he answered firmly: "Both." I demurred, insisting that at least fifteen years, rather than five years, would be required to settle the foundations of such an enterprise, and that after the first experimental period much larger financial support would be required. Making light of difficulties he declared his confidence without reservations. "It will fill a great need, he said, "and we may trust, therefore, that it will be amply provided...