Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alex Y. Malcolmson, 59, original partner of Henry Ford, at Ann Arbor, Mich., after a long illness. He advanced $7,000 in 1902 to found the Ford Motor...
...been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some of which they smoked actual tobacco before the tests, and on others only the "control." The tests included pulse beat, motor control (absence of tremors), tapping of a telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco...
...Francisco the President arrived very quietly and was taken by motor to the Palace Hotel. He seemed tired but not seriously ill. During the day he became worse, however. His case was diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning with complications. It was announced that all his engagements were canceled for the remainder of the trip. General Sawyer, with Lieutenant Colonel Boone, his assistant, and Secretary Work, called in two other physicians for consultation, one of them a heart specialist. It was announced that frequent bulletins on the President's condition would be issued...
...United States sued Motor Trucks, Ltd., of Canada in the Supreme Court of Ontario to recover lands and buildings valued at $376,496.89. The case was carried up on appeal to the British Privy Council. Because the United States was the appellant, the bar of England suspended all rules governing admission in order that James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S., might appear before the highest tribunal of the British Empire. Mr. Beck's argument was the first ever presented by a foreigner to the Privy Council. The claim was allowed...
Tremendous steps have been taken in the administration of rural schools. The old one-teacher unit is going as fast as it can be replaced by grad-schools at convenient centers, served by fleets of motor buses. In Weld County, Colo., 26 modern school plants do the work of 85 weak schools. " Eighty warm, comfortable buses transport 2,510 children daily to the well equipped schools where they are taught by trained teachers." So speaks, not Mr. Babbitt, but the United States Department of the Interior. The central schools have auditoriums, community rooms, gymnasiums, athletic fields, libraries, lyceum courses...