Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North ever asks you where you are from. This is a result of the influx of a number of questionable characters during the gold strike, men whom it would have been dangerous to question. Nearly all of the trappers in Arctic Canada and in Alaska for that matter, are gold miners who entered the territory 28 years age and have not been able to leave it. Most of them make from $3,000 to $1,000 a year selling furs to the Hudson Bay Company, but in spite of their comparative prosperity, they do not wish to leave...
...usual harvest of ancient neckties added a festive note to the heap of habiliments viewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. He was informed that these adornments, no matter how aged were always in demand, either among the Syrians of the Near East or the Ainus of the Far East. The most presentable suits will be kept for the poverty stricken of the United States, some of them being distributed in the vieinu of Cambridge...
Significance. The novel is poorly written. Except for its use of the Harding Administration as subject matter, it would be dull-reading. Even as a piece of muckraking, it is unnecessarily exaggerated and crude. However, it stands as one of the few instances in U. S. history where contemporary politics have been used as the basis of a novel. In Europe this type of fiction is no rarity...
Sought out by reporters, Samuel Insull will speak of that evening, of the magazine. He adds, in matter-of-fact tone, that it was pure chance that made him answer an advertisement in which one Col. George E. Gourard announced his desire for a secretary. Colonel Gourard represented the Edison interests in London. Samuel Insull was a good secretary. When Mr. Edison needed a secretary, Colonel Gourard recommended him. So began one of the most important combinations in U. S. business...
According to a new discovery the temperature of ocean water, at the depth of five-eighths of a mile (1,000 metres), is always 39.2°. No matter what the surface temperature may be, the depths are at just a little above freezing (32°). Georges Claude would drop a long pipe to the ocean deep and pump up cold water to condense his turbine steam. A totally different method of using tidal energy is to "harness" the powerful ebb-and-flow movement of the tides. Three important projects are already under way to accomplish this-at Passamoquody...