Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House had brought forth its tariff bill and to the Hoover eye it did not resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration...
Blackstrap. The close interrelation of Industry and Husbandry is clearly set up in the case of blackstrap?a by-product of molasses and cane sugar, used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...
...assigned to the jail pharmacy by Superintendent William L. Peake. Thirty years ago in Kansas, before he shot his foot and got the insurance money that started him in the oil game, Harry Ford Sinclair was a registered pharmacist. Now he was given a white coat and set to rolling quinine pills for sick convicts, of which there were seven in the jail last week...
...years of experiment Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting mirrors of his own design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio Peak near Pasadena, Calif. The U. S. Geodetic Survey measured the distance between his two instruments, about 22 miles, and assured him that its figure was accurate within one-third of an inch. Playing light from mirror, he timed the 44-mile round trip, calculated the speed of light...
...tutorial instruction is to be regarded as primarily a plan of comprehensive preparation for a definite set of examinations the Harvard methods is unquestionably the more effective of the two. Tutors can block out a three years course of reading, assigning so much to the student each week, sufficient to cover an entire field of study. If the reading is well planned no dangerous interstices will be left in the student's knowledge; the tutor's comparative ignorance of certain phases of the subject can be covered over by judiciously prepared reading list...