Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much more stringent were these rules than the original suggestions of President Portes Gil two months ago, that distracted distillers and worried brewers had visions of Prohibition...
...face of these expert opinions, Scientist-Financier Adams remained a dissenter. He had read in foreign scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device...
Then, actuated as much by scientific curiosity as by financial prudence, he set off for Europe to see for himself the status of Alternating Current. Before going he ended all his Edison connections, to remain unprejudiced in the controversy...
Newsgatherers who lurked in the steady rain about the guard-encircled grounds of the white-shingled house were not much more fortunate. They caught but fleeting glimpses of Anne Morrow and her pilot as they jounced hastily by in a yellow beach wagon, pleasure bound...
...chorus of U. S. philosophizing, somewhere between the deep notes of John Dewey and the loud guggling of the Menckens, two voices are raised-Walter Lippmann's, young and clear, Ludwig Lewisohn's, old and sad. The two have much in common. As Jews, both men can claim rich philosophical heritage. As conscious Americans, both incline to intense modernism. As intellectuals, both prescribe an adaptation of Greek philosophy...