Word: slack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape from the tube's cathode than does Dr. Coolidge's nickel window. And the new contraption is relatively cheap, available for research laboratories everywhere to experiment with the mightiest rays that man has yet learned to control. Remarkable is the fact that Dr. C. M. Slack, Westinghouse Electric's inventor of the glass window, is only...
...Hoover promise for a billion-dollar Federal works program "to take up the slack of occasional unemployment" was repeated...
...country. The organization and administration of this construction is a responsibility of the first order. For it we must secure the utmost economy, honesty and skill. These works which will provide jobs for an army of men should so far as practicable be adjusted to take up the slack of unemployment elsewhere...
...measure was repassed and Mayor L. Ert Slack of Indianapolis honored it and ordered the city's clocks set ahead an hour, which was done. But then it was discovered that, though one of the distinguished City Councilmen has written successful novels, the City Council had written an impotent ordinance. There was no enforcement clause. Indianapolitans, including cinema exhibitors, kept their clocks as they chose with impunity. Time passed through Indianapolis on uneven feet. Confusion reigned. Lawyers puzzled...
...personnel of El Colon does not disgrace its surroundings. Since the southern season occurs precisely at the time when there is no important opera in the U. S. and when European Opera is passing through its slack season, El Colon can? engage many of the most notable singers from either continent. This is attended to by Administrator Pablo F. Barbat; for the coming season he has secured the services of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Didur, Pinza, and Mme. Serafin-Rakowska of the Metropolitan; and of Maria Olczewska, Benvenuto Franci, Otto Wolf from various European companies. He plans to present Ildebrando Pizetti...