Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said the separate states would necessarily fail to regulate the labor fairly owing to the fact that conditions vary in each state. C. M. Gifford, Wesleyan's second speaker, practically won the decision for his team by his smooth delivery and his argument that the amendment "like a steam roller, would crush out all local interests and ideals...
...Republican Senators, 21 incontinently fled the state. They settled just across the border at Rutland, Mass. They remained there. The Bartlett House, where they were staying in the summer, found it worth while to put in steam heat to accommodate them when winter came on. One Senator died. Another, a former divine, became a lecturer at Worcester and is not expected ever to return. The others lived amicably in sun and shade at the expense of the Republican State Committee-an expense estimated at from...
...Progress is obviously aimed at the immense population which has reacted so energetically to the racial humors of Abie's Irish Rose. It is the story of a Jewish family which has prospered and come to live luxuriously in the city. Poor old papa is disconsolate among the steam heating and elevators. Finally they return to rural quietude. Louis Mann plays papa with explosive and characteristic ingenuity...
...Despite a fine "esprit de corps" the Hall has failed. The reasons are under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry machines such as electric ice cream freezer and an automatic potato peeler...
...Science Monthly. A whole series of scientific writers contribute a whole series of articles, readable and comprehensive, profusely illustrated under five major headings comprising groups of special histories: 1) TRANSPORTATION : railroads, waterpower, electric cars, automobiles airplanes; 2) COMMUNICATION: printing, typewriting, telegraphy, telephony, radio, photography, motion pictures, phonographs; 3) POWER: steam, electricity, illumination; 4) EXPLOITING RESOURCES : iron and steel, copper and "nobler metals," oil, coal, lumbering, cotton, agriculture; 5) LABOR SAVING DEVICES: automatic tools, pneumatic devices, sewing machines, shoemaking machines...