Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devised by Professor Arthur Cobb Hardy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric's research staff. In the machine is a glass prism which breaks up the light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum, cosmetics...
...Erie R. R., chairman of the board of Carnegie Steel Co. And when Carnegie dickered with the late, great J. P. Morgan to sink Carnegie Steel into the new U. S. Steel, it was Lawyer Reed who drew the mortgages which secured the bonds. Active to his death, in May 1927, Lawyer Reed saw Pittsburgh steel, Pittsburgh public utilities, grow into mighty units of U. S. industry...
...child of the rich may enter the school. But many a half pagan urchin, wont to roam wildly in the Georgia hills, has been received. There are 7,000 names on the alumni list of the Berry Schools...
...President Coolidge awarded Miss Berry the Roosevelt Memorial Association medal "For Distinguished Service" (TIME, May 25, 1925). Last week. Miss Berry received yet another honor and reward. She won the annual prize of $5,000 given by Pictorial Review magazine to the U. S. woman who has made the greatest contribution to art, letters, science or the social sciences. None doubted that Miss Berry would immediately turn the $5,000 to profit for her school...
...Georges Clemenceau, whom Charles Seymour greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...