Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politicians see the other side of the shield. Within not much over a year many of them must stand for reelection. Their constituents are anxious to see the other fellow, the fellow with more money, taxed. If the surtaxes of the rich man are lightened, the average constituent feels that he (the poor man) will suffer, regardless of the fact that the Government may get more money. The La Follette insurgent group are potent fosterers of this impression. They maintain that to burden the rich is to unburden the poor. The argument has a popular vote-getting appeal. They...
...ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue, have had good results. Colloids of certain elements, such as iodine, sulphur, lead, mercury, have strongly negative charges, and several American physicians are experimenting with colloidal sulphur, while the treatment of Dr. Bell, of Liverpool (TIME, June...
Medals have been offered for the winner and the runner up, while a shield will be presented to the school scoring the greatest number of points...
...whereas kingdoms or empires can only issue new stamps when the ruling monarch dies. But now the custom is becoming prevalent of using landscape designs, and Europe is on a par with America. If the present exhibit is successful, a new international rivalry may be created. But the stamp shield is likely to produce still wider effects. Certain artistic collectors already use postage stamps for wall paper: and the chance for the working out of large fancy designs seems unlimited. Stamp collectors even copy the example of a German couple, who used currency to make suits of clothes save that...
...Halls. Following the meet at dinner, the prizes will be awarded to the winning individuals, and to the team which gathers the highest point total. Medals will be given to the place winners in each of the events which will be contested, while the victorious school will receive a shield for permanent possession, and a cup, which it holds during the year of its championship, and then must defend in the next meeting...