Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Place. Covered. Eclipse. New York 46% 4:38 P. M. Boston 42 4:36 " Buffalo 45 4:31 " Washington 50 4:39 " Chicago 52 3:26 " St. Paul 51 3:15 "; St. Louis 60 3:29 "; Atlanta 64 3:43 " New Orleans 76 3:44 " Denver 71 2:09 " Salt Lake City 77 1:56 " Seattle 74 12:31 " San Francisco 96 12:44 " Los Angeles 99 12:57 " San Diego 100 12:58 " The Yerkes Observatory expedition (TIME, Sept. 3), in charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift...
...been learned (by Science Service) that the "secret chemical" rumored during the War to have been given German soldiers to endow them with supernormal energy was sodium dihydrogen phosphate. This salt was administered in the form of a drink to the shock troops as they entered battle or during long marches. For psychological reasons other battalions were served with a sham stimulant at the same time, acidulated with tartaric instead of phosphoric acid...
...place in the! literary world for himself, sans qualifying relatives. A graduate of the University of California, he has reported dog-shows, written Hints for Tulip Raisers, worked on The Christian Herald, Country Life, The American Magazine, served in the late War, and written two best sellers, Brass and Salt. He likes monosyllabic titles, the State of California, loud neckties...
...itself, is Dickensian. Woollcott, to me, is the most interesting of our dramatic critics, for he not only seems to have a knowledge of the theatre but he occasionally permits himself rare and unreasoning enthusiasms off the track of popular approval. This is good. Any critic worth his salt, it seems to me, must have the entire world disagreeing with him at least once in a season...
...which he was head, made the supreme authority in the Church, and had his most potent rival, Rigdon, tried for threatening treason and " cut off from the Church." It was not until 1847, however, that Young was chosen as Smith's successor. Under his leadership the Mormons migrated to Salt Lake City. When Utah was admitted into the United States as a territory in 1850, Young was the first Governor. He died in 1877, leaving an estate of more than $2,000,000, 25 wives and 56 children...