Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School of Architecture there were three appointments for next year: Mr. Kenneth John Conant '15, instructor in architecture, Mr. Charles Augustus Whittemore, lecturer on the mechanical plant of buildings, and Mr. John Wilson '00, instructor in modelling...
...Marquis, eminent divine of Detroit, has known Henry Ford for 20 years. Dr. Marquis went along on the Peace Ship; was employed for five years as " sociologist" head of the Ford plant; became so interested in the mind of Henry Ford that Ford psychology became his major study. Dr. Marquis' book,* cleverly written, is an examination of the Ford halo. It leaves that halo very big if somewhat...
...Arthur Currie, President of McGill University, more than 3,000 claims of cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with bloodroot an easy first. Red clover chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths have their advocates. Lord Atholstan is the first Canadian-born peer to be raised to the House of Lords for services to the Empire...
...literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds to the merest pressure. . . . The plant but positive gears engage silently". One nationally known electric firm prints well rounded essays to describe its product, and the Ann Sawyers and Well-Dressed Men gossip like Pepys and Evelyn...
...final event of the evening was a visit to the Boston, Herald, where the delegates were shown through the reportorial rooms and the press plant...