Word: pers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington that the Republicans framing the tariff bill were demoralized by the heat and the problem before them and, leaderless, were voting every which way, it was announced that the new cooling system in the Senate had been completely installed, that the equivalent of 350,000 lb. of ice per day would be "melted" to keep that chamber comfortable and steady its occupants' wobbly nerves, when the Senate reassembles...
...were the gravediggers grave? Because they received $5 per day, wanted $42 per week. Because they also wanted recognition of their newly-formed Cemetery Workers' Union and reinstatement of its president, one Henry Dougherty, cemetery chauffeur, who had been ousted just before the strike...
...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...
...shipped to far-away Angora 3,000 specially made, 31-key, 100% Turkish typewriters. "To build them we had to construct entirely new dies," said Remington Rand's foreign sales director John A. Zellers. "That was what sent the total cost of this shipment up to $400,000" ($133.33 per typewriter...
...doing work. Work is lifting 50 pounds to a table three feet high, exerting 150 foot pounds. You increase the energy of the weight by the process, adding 150 foot pounds to it. If you do it in ten seconds you exert a power of 15 foot pounds per second. Weight is the force by which the earth attracts a body, and is variable. Mass is a measure of inertia and does not vary. Energy is force multiplied by distance. A body would weigh less on the moon because the mass of the moon is so much less than that...