Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant and smiting fact about all the Guianas is their stunted and negligible development under supposedly enlightened European aegis. During the present year a shocked House of Commons has been scandalized by the discovery that forgotten British Guiana has never had a British constitution and has hastily provided one. Since the colony possesses diamond fields, these have been exploited by absentee-owned syndicates; but it is fair and just to say that Great Britain has lamentably failed to turn her famed colonizing talents to the development of British Guiana. Equally deplorable is the Dutch failure to make anything...
...book: Farm Products in Industry, by Dr. George M. Rommel, Rae D. Henkle, New York City, publisher; the magazine: Prairie Farmer; the newspaper, Danville, 111. Commercial News. Magazines and newspapers were special editions. The corn paper will not continue to be used at the present time because of expense...
Chicago businessmen who attended their Executives Club luncheon at the Hotel Sherman last week expected their scientific guest to give them a bland, postprandial lecture on science's present accomplishments. He gave them instead a disturbing intimation of horrible death-by describing the effects of the gas cacodyl isocyanide...
...Chicago executives heard and cringed, then recovered their ease upon reflecting that the lecturer was Dr. Hilton Ira Jones, sound scientist, at present director of scientific research for the Redpath (lyceum, lecture) Bureau and therefore a professional rouser of emotions...
...Orville Wright, whom the President extolled, was not present. A train derailment had delayed him. When he arrived and unobstrusively entered the conference hall by a side door, a short grey-haired man in a sack suit, the delegates rose and applauded. He smiled, said nothing, took a seat near Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Later in the sessions, when Col. Lindbergh was summoned to accept the bronze Clifford Harmon trophy, he was obliged to step over Mr. Wright's feet. Nothing was said. A moment later, Assistant Secretary of Commerce MacCracken called Mr. Wright to join Col. Lindbergh...