Word: lights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Robert Edward Lee was the youngest son of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary hero who surprised Paulus Hook, N. J., and was awarded a gold medal. The blood of Lionel Lee who fought with Richard Coeur de Lion ran in his veins. He hankered early for a military life and was devoted to his mother, who raised her boy to be a soldier...
Negatives at that time were made on wet plates, a sheet of glass covered with collodion and silver nitrate (sensitive to light) a few minutes before exposure. George Eastman, no scientist himself, tried empirically to invent dry plates covered with silver nitrate and gelatine. After trials and troubles which a thorough knowledge of colloidal chemistry, as he later learned, might have prevented, he succeeded in this effort...
...Last week, trading in the stock became steady at $165.50 a share; and pat upon that situation, Mr. Ryan who theretofore had always smiled mockingly at offers to buy the company, let it be known that he and other directors had agreed to sell out to the American Power & Light Co., for the equivalent of $166 a share. That is, they were trading each of their Montana Power shares for two shares of a new issue which the American Power & Light was issuing; and a banking-syndicate (Bonbright & Co., White, Weld & Co. and National City Co.) was willing...
...Sidney Z. Mitchell, another director of Montana Power, it was doubly a good deal. Mr. Mitchell is chairman of the American Power & Light Co., and has long maneuvered to persuade Mr. Ryan to sell out. Montana Power, which...
...This marks the end of provincialism in Philadelphia. . . . The city has always been devoted to higher things, living in the light of culture, but in the past there has been no centre of culture in Philadelphia. . . . The city culturally has been a family without a hearthstone. . . ." These were the words of onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper; the hearthstone to which he referred was the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, at whose dedication he was making a speech. The new museum stands above the Schuylkill River, on a spot once tenanted by factories and tenements; here...