Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd Mr. Mellon's lesson in rudimentary protectionists' economics ran somewhat as follows: "Now, U. S., do you know that you only make up a little over 6% of the world's population, and yet you are so industrious that you consume between 37% and 75% of the world's production of coal, iron, copper, rubber, petroleum and many another commodity? The reason for this phenomenon is simple. Your industries which manufacture competitive products are protected by the tariff. Hence your labor is kept busy, your standard of living is high and you can buy from...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr., Arthur Brisbane, General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Hugh Walpole, General Pershing, Leopold Stokowski and many another were invited to a reception in Her Majesty's honor at the Ritz, Manhattan. Of the 800 persons presented, a few kissed the royal hand and a few ran around to the end of the line after being presented and were presented again. Most shook hands with the Queen...
...switches, a huge induction coil-equipment for supplying 350,000 volts. In his hand he held, a glass vessel, five feet long, bulging in the middle. This was a vacuum tube, made portable so that it could be attached to an exhaustion pump in any laboratory. Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing the main current. About this cathode was built another innovation in vacuum tubes, a metal cup designed to repel electrons backfiring against...
...last period was almost over. The two teams were tangled on Dartmouth's 48-yard line with Dartmouth leading, 12-10, when French of Harvard got clear on a line play and ran for a touchdown. Score: Harvard, 16; Dartmouth...
...play, they had a foot to go. Signals were called; a desperate Navy team plunged into the scrimmage, and then a few sharp-eyed watchers saw the ball lying on the ground behind the scrum. Russel Lloyd of the Navy saw it too. He picked it up and ran 99 yards for a touchdown that proved the unsoundness of the adage about battles and the strong. Score: Navy, 13; Colgate...