Word: soda
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling it theatrical, that most holy thing, austerity...
...most respects, yet the present rate of growth of purely chemical industries in America promises well for the future. In particular the cheap production of electrical energy at Niagara Falls has made possible the founding of a large group of electro-chemical processes, in which such substances as caustic soda, chlorine, aluminum, carborundum and graphite are produced in large quantities...
...hard to deal directly with summer baseball on account of the indirect way in which a player often received his recompense. He mentioned instances of a boy jumping over a bat for a bet of $50 with the manager of a baseball team, or of tending a soda fountain at a summer hotel for half an hour a day at $50 a week. He could see no objections to a bona fide resident playing with a summer nine provided he received no compensation either direct or indirect...
...features of the game were Brown's hit on a soda bet and Curtis's slashing drive which bounded off Greeley's neck. In sliding for third he undermined. Fenn, catapulting him into the air, but little Roger came out on top in the end. Dunbar deserted the "sheet" and the crafty editorial-writer scooped up some pretty grounders making but one error on an attempt at a football catch...
Faxon, H. P., American Soda Fountain Company...