Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could use his eyes and judgment regarding the quality of the glass, but a machine requires its material automatically, of proper condition and quantity, otherwise the product will be defective. At that time, glass was more or less an empirical product, evolved from tried formulae, but subject to any number of variations in its physical properties, of which we had but little conception. To produce a glass which in its molten condition would feed a bulb-blowing machine with unfailing speed was a problem in the solution of which the Corning Glass Works have not only...
...know a couple of old Salvation Army Captains, Englishmen, who, during the Indian famine of twenty-five years ago, fed three times the number of starving human beings that Hoover fed during the World War. And these unknown famine relief agents did not have the richest nation on earth sending food to them by the shipload and shoveling out money by the barrel to maintain an enormous organization...
...world-wide lottery betting upon it. At the end of a Derby race it is generally discovered that some very obscure person has suddenly won a considerable fortune at very little risk. Such knowledge encourages people to bet on the following Derby. Thus Derby sweepstakes perennially increase in number and size...
...Nathaniel Lord Britton, 70, founder in 1896 and only director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, to devote himself to private research in tropical flora. Gardener Britton had nursed a wooded waste to third place in botanical garden fame, to world-known horticultural and botanical exhibits. Exhibits number millions, attendance averages 50,000 on summer Sundays. Long an advocate of planting Japanese ginkgo trees, Gardener Britton is also co-author of a four-volume treatise on cacti...
...every learned attorney knows, the Statute of Limitations prevents persons from suing for money, for land reclamation, etc., etc., after lapse of a certain number of years (the number differing in various states). "Laches," which may be a defense where the Statute does not apply, means "undue delay in asserting a right, or in claiming or asking for a privilege." In deciding for the Negro Shriners, the venerable justices pointed out that the White Shriners had been guilty of "long and obvious lapses." While Negro Shriners strutted, rejoiced over their victory, White Shriners were also rejoicing-for other reasons. They...