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Word: pittsburgh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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These investigators reported that all was well. Care would have to be taken in handling the potent tetraethyl lead, but garage workers and people in the street were safe enough. Experiments at Pittsburgh on animals had shown that the deposition of lead from an ethyl gas exhaust was very small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leaded Gasoline | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...street leading into Pittsburgh, a bus carrying a troupe of strolling players who present Uncle Tom's Cabin was hurrying. Other cars were hurrying likewise. One was a handsome limousine, with a banker reclining within; one was a scrap-iron truck, driven by a Negro. It was this truck, passing three automobiles coming toward it, that accidentally rammed one of them. There was a tremendous crash. Five other cars piled into the wreckage before they could stop. Among them were the strolling players, the handsome limousine. Little Eva was badly shaken. The two bloodhounds yelped with pain and rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOTES: In Pittsburgh | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers convened. Their president, Engineer S. E. Dibble, touched upon the heat of the future in a manner coolly prophetic: "It is no more improbable to broadcast heat waves than it was to broadcast sound waves. . . . The day is not far off when we shall see huge centralized heating plants broadcasting heat to be utilized at far distant points in homes, plants and office buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heat Waves? | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Last week the trustees called another Methodist and he heard them and said he would go unto them. He was Dr. Daniel Lash Marsh of Pittsburgh, aged 45, alumnus of Northwestern University, Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago University and Boston University. Ordained in 1903, Dr. Marsh served seven years in small Pennsylvania towns until called to Sewickley, socially prominent suburb of Pittsburgh. There he paid the church debt, multiplied the congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: B. U. President | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Within three years he was put at the head of Pittsburgh's M. E. union, comprising 103 churches. He served with the Y. M. C. A. in France. He was made a member of his church's highest lawmaking body, the General Conference. He edited the Pittsburgh Methodist and wrote The Challenge of Pittsburgh, Tiny Tales of Modern Miracles, Regular Fellows, The Faith of the People's Poet (the late James Whitcomb Riley, personal friend of Dr. Marsh). He preached to "capacity houses," with hundreds being turned from his church door. Now, beginning next month, he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: B. U. President | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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