Word: stout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seattle strongly favors municipal ownership of public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running...
...half of the bare whitewashed courtroom of Sciacca, Sicily, is taken up by three enormous cages of stout iron bars. On wooden benches inside the cages last week sat 178 scowling swarthy Sicilians, all soberly dressed. Scattered among the prisoners were a few self-conscious carabinieri fingering their white shoulder belts nervously. Entered the jury that had been deliberating for four days. "Guilty!" - in crisp official Italian, the judge pronounced sentences...
...disaster. In the U. S. Lieut. Charles Bowers Momsen and in England R. H. Davis have each invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece. Connecting mouthpiece and tank is a stout tube. Thus a man escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there has been no U. S. submarine catastrophe to give...
...Curtis makes his home in an eleven-room suite at the swanky Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue. Ordinary tenants would have to pay $150 per day for these quarters; the Vice President gets them for $5.53. The Mayflower is controlled by the American Bond & Mortgage Co. of which short, stout, thick-necked William J. Moore, 65, is president.* Since last autumn the Department of Justice has been investigating American Bond & Mortgage. Thousands of investors have complained that this company gobbled up their money, returned them nothing. Charges have been made in court that Mr. Moore had a technique of financing...
...generally equipped with little pit-like cellars, which some times contained a wooden bench beside a firepace. The dwellings were grouped closely together on top of the hill, but in the middle was an open space, perhaps a place of public assembly. Around the cluster of buildings was a stout stockade of heavy wooden posts, and in this were elaborately contrived gates, with special provision for defence. At some time the inhabitants apparently decided they needed more room and so they uprooted their stockade and moved it further down the hill. The lower one seems to have had a raised...