Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Navy's crew coach Richard Glendon telegraphed to Columbia's coach: "I can't lose and may win the Navy-Columbia race." He couldn't lose because Columbia's coach is Richard Glendon Jr. Any victory would be a Glendon victory...
Insulted by this prospect were taxi-minded Manhattanites. Insulted and injured were Manhattan taxi men. For, said they, the new tax was unfairly proportioned. True, last month's passage of the New York state gasoline tax (2? per gallon, effective May 1) completed the role of 48 U. S. gas-taxing states. But the private car uses about 550 gallons of gasoline a year. The taxi uses about 7,565 gallons. Inasmuch as the New York law makes no distinction between gas taxes for taxicabs and for private cars, the taxi men, with 3% of New York City automobiles...
Said Builder Ley: "The five-day week is inevitable." True, he referred to the building trades in New York City. But five-day-week advocates everywhere cheered his statement, cheered even more loudly when he added that "The five-day movement has gained a real foothold and its adoption may reach throughout the country." A national five-day week would make Saturday leisure equal to Sunday; would give to millions of U. S. car-owning workers an additional day of relaxation, refreshment. Thus merchants of food, drink and transportation beamed and smiled...
...could Builder Ley's prophecy be considered a thought fathered by a wish. The already granted (effective May 1) five-day week for Manhattan bricklayers adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass...
...certain fatty acid. The Sterling laboratory at Yale has been isolating that acid and the Rockefeller Institute has been experimenting with it. Dr. Sabin, with fingers strong but gentle, has been injecting the acid into laboratory animals. She has found that it induces reactions similar to tuberculosis and may be the substance which really causes tubercles to grow. If so, a specific treatment may be evolved...