Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...healthier a person is the easier he is to electrocute. Sick convicts require 2,700 volts for painless death; normal ones need only 2,000 volts. Engineer Ogle would have physicians look more carefully into the electrical condition of human organs in the diagnosis of disease. This, he believes, is a comparatively unexplored field of medicine...
Louisiana State University (and Agricultural and Mechanical College), at Baton Rouge, La., in search of a president, singled out Major Campbell Blackshear Hodges, commandant of cadets* at West Point. Though the university is coeducational, this choice was not unusual, nor need foes of military training in the colleges have become excited. Louisiana State has long had a cadet corps. In 1911 Major Hodges commanded it, teaching Spanish at the same time. He is well-known in the state, having organized its militia (1915-17). Square-cut, with steel-grey hair and large brown eyes, he would doubtless be a president...
...much. However, the American Tobacco Co.'s advertising agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous at 65, why then, no woman need conceal her smoking. . . . The American Tobacco Co. makes eight other important brands of cigarets, so that if this advertising arouses prohibitive discrimination against Lucky Strikes, the company can push some of its other makes...
...season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if his client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon he beseeches them "not to go over that ground again. Business is business...
Stimulation of international mindedness and the spread of Christianity are the two goals which are now avowed by the supporters of the Christian Federation. In the most recent pamphlet issued by the Federation, the need for direct material aid is admitted to have subsided, and the furtherance of effort working toward these ends is urged...