Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second place, I was born in Idaho, not in Iowa. I refuse to be born in Iowa...
...Swift & Co. has emphatically remained a Swift company, though the present Swifts are a second generation. In addition to President Louis F. Swift, there are Vice Presidents E. F. Swift, G. F. Swift, C. H. Swift, H. H. Swift (No. 1 Trustee of the great University of Chicago) and A. B. Swift...
...thousands of book-a-month readers who are generally subscribers-by-the-year. Book-of-the-Month Club, which merely selects and sends books at no great reduction, has the largest number of subscribers. Literary Guild, cheaper, selects and sends as well as does its own binding, has second largest subscription list. Others more or less similar, are the following, supplied by the Publishers' Weekly, publishing trade organ: Paper Books, Limited Editions Club of America, Inc.; Poetry Clan; Free Thought Club; Religious Book Club; Catholic Book Club, Inc.; Detective Story Club, Inc.; Crime Club; Junior Book Club; Junior Literary...
Despite prophecies that the winner of the contest would mysteriously become a "second Edison" at once, and rumors that Inventor Edison would turn all his duties over to the "brightest bright boy" and then retire, the contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring...
...capability of doing work. Power is the time rate of doing work. Work is lifting 50 pounds to a table three feet high, exerting 150 foot pounds. You increase the energy of the weight by the process, adding 150 foot pounds to it. If you do it in ten seconds you exert a power of 15 foot pounds per second. Weight is the force by which the earth attracts a body, and is variable. Mass is a measure of inertia and does not vary. Energy is force multiplied by distance. A body would weigh less on the moon because...