Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luckless boy who obeyed the moral laws but was manacled, body and spirit, by the statutes of man. A lonely newcomer in the city, he took a street-girl to a dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed...
...wise financier, took over the management of the Auburn Automobile Co. in 1924 when it was building obsolescent cars and losing money. He reorganized manufacturing processes, designed new models,* perked up the sales force. Since 1926 he has made Auburn show a yearly increasing profit, and, even more momentously, sent its stock from a low of $31.75 in 1925 to a high of $514 this year.† Since then he has been buying parts manufacturers - Lycoming Manufacturing Co. (automobile and aviation engines), Columbia Axle Co., Duesenberg Inc. (motor cars, submarine and speedboat motors), Limousine Body Co., Central Manufacturing Co. (bodies...
...costs and begin to make money, it seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent out by the co-operative association, and take their chances on later smoothing out what they considered its inequalities...
Later Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte sent a despatch claiming that between Paris and their Manchurian stop they had covered approximately 6,160 miles, thus surpassing the 4,500-mile, Italy-to-Brazil non-stop record...
...Greak Neck, microphone and control board are located in the Principal's office, allowing him to "pipe" his voice to any or all classrooms. Likewise from the control board may be sent such hand-picked radio entertainment as Great Neck students should hear, talking-machine records, lectures. Because few large schools have adequate auditoriums, because much time is spent moving shuffling menageries of school children to and from meetings, such new-fangled means of classroom communication will be smiled on by educators...