Word: phased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little Hall, for 16 years the home of the Widow Nolen's tutoring establishment, will enter on a new phase of its existence this week when it becomes the home of 58 members of the Freshman class...
...Turks, who are at present going through a Turkey-for-theTurks phase, have ever despised the lowly and, be it said, dirty Greek and other Levantines for their unscrupulous methods. Foreigners who visit the bazaars of Constantinople have noticed that it is always the Levan- tines who cheat and hardly ever the Turks...
...Congressional election of 1922. And they carried the bulk of organized Labor along with them when the bloc put up its candidate for President this year. Gompers had little choice but to follow. The significance of it is that the American labor movement has entered upon a new phase and that Gompers' day is past. He is old, broken in health and his power will not long survive the passing of leadership into other hands...
...they are other people's ideas. They are secondhand. I want some experience to confirm them or else to get a new set of my own. It will probably be some time before I go in for politics. In the meantime I should like to study every phase of life, and I think that can best be done as a reporter...
...which the waters of Niagara Falls were first harnessed; the high tension system of power transmission; the synchronous converter employed on New York City subways for converting alternating to direct current; the generating equipment for the first big railway electrification (on the N. Y., N. H. & H.); the single-phase alternating current; the single reduction-gear streetcar motor, which, although designed in 1890, is the type still used. His conception of the single-phase alternating-current railway system, now in universal use, is declared to have revolutionized the industry. The 62,500-kilowatt generator which he recently designed was larger...