Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strawbridge acknowledged her debt for the idea to Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, who served no liquor at her Easter party to set a law observance fashion and please President Hoover. Mrs. Strawbridge wrote to ladies of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New York. She inquired "whether it would be possible to constitute a committee of women of your own standing in the social world, who would interest themselves in creating sentiment for observance of the Prohibition laws within their own circles. My eventual desire," said she, "is to form a national committee composed...
...Strawbridge's plan, refinement is the keynote, for she proposes "no spectacular crusade, no public meetings, no newspaper publicity-nothing of that sort at all. My thought is simply that if people whose wealth and position clothe them with the power of example can be induced to set an example, as Mrs. Mc-Lean is trying to do, we could be of inestimable aid to the President...
...Champagne, on the other hand, must submit to indecent manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...
...ultraviolet rays of the spectrum. They charge it electrically. Hence when the Rentschler uranium bulb is exposed to an ultraviolet ray source an electric charge is created in proportion to the ray's intensity. This charge is accumulated in a condenser until a given potential is set up. Then the condenser discharges and, in the Rentschler meter, makes an argon tube give out a bluish flash and simultaneously causes a pencil to mark the occurrence on a chart. The time between the flashes and the tracings on the chart measures the strength of the ultraviolet rays...
...decision lay in the fact that Mr. Ford has moved his entire tractor business to Cork, whence it is expected that 100,000 Fordsons a year will eventually be sent to U. S. buyers. The decision also encouraged Ford Internationalism, hastened the time at which the sun will never set on Ford factories...