Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People who have visited the Hoovers in or out of the White House realize that Mrs. Hoover's "at-homeness" is not a commonplace quality. It is the product of wide education, travel, association with big-calibre people in many lands. A small-town publisher's wife and a small-town lawyer's wife have been succeeded by a cosmopolite's wife...
...amyl. Ethyl alcohol is grain alcohol, and may be used socially (as in cocktails) as well as industrially. Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol, made by distillation of the gases which escape from burning wood. Unlike ethyl, methyl is immediately poisonous, almost instantaneously fatal. Amyl alcohol is a by-product of ethyl, is an acrid, evil-smelling substance commonly known as fusel oil, and is a comparatively unimportant member of the alcohol family. Industrial alcohol is ethyl alcohol denatured by the addition of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for beverage purposes. There are other denaturants, such as sulphuric ether, turpentine...
...colorful Cornell Sun has succeeded in ignoring the main point of the Corporation's mysterious endowment plan, but the by-product of individual professionalism is nearly as interesting as the topic of large-scale commercialization. The development of a plan of abolishing gate receipts would naturally be paralleled by a furthering of intramural athletics, and an ultimate goal of the least possible intercollegiate sport. If this were carried through to perfection, the problem of individual professionalism would be settled finally; for the spirit that moves anxious alumni to subscribe to funds that will aid so-and-so to stay...
...Secretary Stimson in his role as onetime Governor-General of the Philippines. Mr. Alunan had once been president of the Philippine Sugar Association and, in his official capacity as Secretary of Agriculture, he foresees only ruin for the Island's industry if the U. S. taxes their chief product. Secretary Stimson was sympathetic. He went before the Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee last week as an evangel for free Philippine sugar...
...exceptions pure gold, a few nuggets of which he will give his readers. For example, the description of some of the advertisements: "The said magazine contained a certain advertisement under the following caption: Gland Glad, Papa's Silent Partner. The aforesaid advertisements represented that the use of its product 'Brings quick animation, ready response, lingering satisfaction. If your vitality is low gladden your glands... Be a he-man'; when in truth and in fact the aforesaid representations were exaggerated and in excess of probable accomplishment...