Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the rays of radium, the Millikan Rays, wherever they are present in any quantity, have a sterilizing effect fatal to life. X-rays are absorbed by half an inch of lead. The Millikan Ray will pierce six feet of lead; it is the product of elements uniting with an energy charge 50 times as great as that evolved by any reaction known to the earth...
Harold ("Red") Grange of Illinois (who has received so much publicity that the Knickerbocker Ice Co. recommended its product to the public on the score that he has carried ice on his back) sat on a bench and saw his second and third string teammates beat Wabash on a sloppy field...
...Harvard CRIMSON, today celebrating the tenth anniversary of its present building, is the product of 53 years of strife and labor. It has a history of hardships overcome, of desperate competitions won, and of ever increasing success...
There were other examples of collegiate waggery, astounding when one considered that they were the product of the feminine intellect. Radcliffe had turned the trick. Collegiate fops who declared that there have been no witty women since the 18th Century were laughed to scorn. The Lampoon was worsted. For a day jubilation pranced in the Crimson editorial rooms-and then, on a plain typewritten sheet, came the cruel, the incredible dénouement...
...realize that the sentence here quoted from the report of the Athletic Committee is the product of a state of mind which seems to be in vogue just not. Even the newspapers commend it. For instance, the New York Times says in approval: 'This certainly is a movement in the right direction.' But as a matter of fact...