Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sides, the Ignitron is an ordinary mercury vapor lamp except that the electrodes are the pool of mercury in the bottom of the sphere and a graphite pole above it. When struck by the bullet, the copper wire closes a switch which passes electric current to the mercury. A spark then leaps between pool and pole. The flash lasts...
Motors. A more conclusive example of profitless prosperity was furnished by General Motors' quarterly report, published last week. GM sold 130,000 more autos than in 1933's second quarter and a correspondingly larger number of refrigerators, Diesel engines, spark plugs, vacuum cleaners. Translated into dollars, its three-month sales jumped to $303,000,000?an increase of no less than $100,000,000. Yet wages and the cost of materials jumped even faster. So GM did its additional $100,000,000 of business without a nickel's profit. Indeed its three-month profit of $40,000,000 was actually...
...armament, military, and foreign policies during and after the war were enough, in 1922, to send Lloyd George, who did more than any other man to win the way out of office forever. This strange character, the greatest armament salesman the world has ever known, struck a major spark in the world when he collided with an American of somewhat similar interests. Zaharoff at that time was a salesman for the Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co., Ltd., of England and had done very well in profits out of the perpetual dogfights in the Balkans and the Near East, to which...
...outlaw. Never have I stepped out upon lighter, more exhilarating air than during those days when I obtained, to me, convincing evidence that this hitherto baffling badge upon our hearts is an enduring souvenir of those dim and distant ancestral days when eggs were eggs-each housing the developing spark of life that, from first to last, those lowly ancestors of ours had a freedom and independence worthy of the name...
...violent tiff is in prospect tonight when the Liberal Club meets for the annual election of officers in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock, and a new spark was added to the fight already going on within the ranks of the Club when Thomas H. Quinn '36, President, last night announced his intention of retiring from that office...