Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like circles and arcs varying in size from several hundred miles across to less than is telescopically visible, is explained on a somewhat new theory by Colonel John Millis, army engineer and geologist, writing in Popular Astronomy. Rejecting the theory that the moon's features could be the product of volcanic action, he believes that the satellite was formed by a coalescence of masses coming together by mutual gravitation. If, then, meteors fell into the moon while the crust was cooling, they would penetrate the surface, throwing up circular ridges, and the holes thus caused would probably be filled...
...have long had the Edison phonograph, the Maxim silencer, the Bell telephone. Now we are to have the Steinmetz truck. Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, " wizard of Schenectady," has been working for several years to perfect an electrical truck. The product of his efforts has been placed on the market, and full-page advertisements are appearing in the newspapers. They bear a statement over Dr. Steinmetz's signature that the trucks effect a saving of from 25 to 50 per cent over gasoline and horse-drawn vehicles, and a picture of the inventor-perfecto in mouth-covering a quarter...
...Russia. The Soviet government has found in the social creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America the following principles: Protection of the worker from forced unemployment, old age pensions, minimum wage, reduction of hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and the most equitable division of the product of industry which can be devised. (This creed was adopted by the Methodists...
...opera season has passed in a wave of enthusiasm. The Chicago company was hospitably received, and it departed with a cordial invitation to come again next year. Old music-lovers, recalling earlier days when the city could boast its native opera, were inclined to be suspicious of this imported product; but most of them had good sense enough not to cut off their ears to spite their faces, and made the best of what was offered them...
...misplaced comma caused weeks of argument on Article X of the Versailles treaty. There is even less difficulty in stirring up trouble intentionally. Headlines can always be written to read two ways, a report can be garbled, and emphasis can be put on the wrong phrase. The result,--the product of exaggeration and misrepresentation.--will furnish sporting columns with gossip for a fortnight, but it is unlikely to accomplish anything else. The cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" has been raised too often. The relations between Harvard. Princeton, and Yale are too firmly established to lead any one of them to jump...