Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent war, under the auspices of the National League of Women Voters. The best design will be chosen in January by a committee including Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Three prizes of $500 to $2,500 will be awarded. The card will be put on sale for Christmas...
...made, treatment is applied by the " oscilloclast." This is based on the principle that specific drugs possess the same vibratory rate as the diseases for which they are effective. By turning on the proper rate for a few treatments the "oscilloclast " clears " the disease. The machine is not for sale, but is leased for $200 down and $5 a month to Abrams graduates who will sign a contract not to open the apparatus. Other Abrams devices are the " electro-concussor;" the " biodynamometer," for determining "the potentiality of human energy;" the " sphygmobiometer," which demonstrates the " wave-metric index " of liquids...
About Prohibition: "... a word on the immense service he rendered it (the army) at the beginning of the War in suppressing the manufacture and sale of vodka. . . . The Emperor did this entirely on his own initiative, without advice from his ministers or the Grand Dukes. The Emperor said at the time: ' At least by this will I be remembered...
...assume definiteness. Cotton ginned prior to Oct. 18 totaled 6,400,579 bales, compared with 6,978,321 last year. Evidently, as these figures show, there has been no rush this year to send the present cotton crop to market, partly, perhaps, because it is being withheld from sale in the hopes of obtaining higher prices later on, but mainly because there is less cotton than usual to market...
Nearly half the state rooms for the special Harvard boat to New York on the eve of the Princeton football game have already been reserved. A brisk sale of tickets and reservations is looked for during the next few days, and it is expected that when the Priscilla, the Fall River boat which has been chartered for the trip sails on Friday it will have on board at least 700 of the 1500 members of the University who will invade the jungle on Saturday...