Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout Europe, and particularly in Russia, college men and women have been caught in the mill of political events. A recent report by John R. Mott, chairman of the European Student Relief, describes the appalling conditions under which education is carried on. It tells the old familiar stories of poverty, sickness, and suffering. The fact that the intellectual element, from which leadership must come in the future, is threatened adds force to the appeal of humanity alone. The need for doctors, engineers, and all kinds of professional men becomes greater and greater, and without help from America, a serious shortage...
...some time trade reports have had it that Henry Ford would ultimately have to enter the spinning, weaving and dyeing industry, if he were going to carry out his policy of manufacting all parts of his car himself. Now Lockwood, Greene & Co., famed engineers and specialists in textile mill construction of Boston, have announced that they have been engaged by the Ford Motor Co. to build a large mill in Detroit, and furthermore that "experiments now being conducted point to a highly abbreviated and highly automatic process in the new mill...
...specific purpose of the new mill will be to manufacture the cloth backing for the artificial leather used in Ford cars...
...Sutcliffe, who was for a time secretary to " Dean " Waldo Briggs, of the St. Louis diploma mill, revealed how students were turned out after attending a half dozen classes, with records falsified to show four years of medical instruction. Diplomas were issued wholesale at $250 up. Classes of " dumb-bell " graduates were crammed through the state board examinations in Colorado and Connecticut at so much a head...
...producers of auricular cauliflowers opened another mill last week. When it closed down for the night, Jack Renault, French Canadian heavyweight, had knocked out Floyd Johnson, lowan. Fifteen rounds were required for the operation. The 15 sealed forever Johnson's claims to the heavyweight championship; but they showed him to be one of the most unflinching fighters that ever wore a glove; he will always be somebody's sparring partner. Renault showed considerable skill but no vestige (in either hand) of the crushing cannon ball which alone can dent the Dempsey crown...