Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written by Carleton Washburne, the superintendent of the public school system in Winnetka, Illinois, who has transformed his schools into an educational laboratory; and by Myron M. Stearns, a graduate of Stanford University and a magazine author of note. The collaboration is a fortunate one, the joint product being both instructive and entertaining, something which cannot be said of the majority of the many books now being written on the subject of secondary education...
...bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year Harvard graduating classes planted Ivy shoots in the unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class of 1838 was the first to invite mothers, sisters, and sweethearts to the celebration, the affair up to that date being hardly favorable for feminine attendance because of liberal libations of iced ruin punch...
...many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said...
...following campaign awards of $2,000 each will be given: for a national campaign of a specific product; for a local campaign for a specific product or merchandise; for a general or institutional campaign; and for a campaign of industrial products...
...recommending that the safest thing to do would be decant the gas into new, strong tanks and sell it as quickly as possible to widely spread consumers. Eventually the consensus of opinion was that the phosgene should be disintegrated by the admixture of other chemicals into a harmless residual product...