Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge, having considered for eleven months the reports of the Tariff Commission recommending reductions in the tariff on sugar, declined to use his power under the elastic provisions of the tariff law to reduce the tariff (see TARIFF...
...electrical conductivity of solutions is one of their most important properties from a practical and theoretical point of view. Some solutions, such as sugar solutions, are non-conductants of electricity, whereas most salt solutions conduct well and acid solutions the best of all and the conductivity is directly related to other properties of solutions so that accurate knowledge of conductivity is a matter of considerable scientific interest. Professor Jones is planning to make many measurements of this kind, but the improvement in the technique has made all existing standards of reference obsolete and it will first be necessary to compare...
MacDonald Smith is one of the Smith Brothers. No bearded rapscallion he, seller of sugar-coated cough drops, but the most brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing...
...arena. An animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...this the tropical tranquillity of Honolulu clerks and merchants has been rudely broken these past two weeks. Searchlights have staggered the dusky night; airplanes have hummed through the garish day. Tanks, tractors, guns have rattled through streets. Officers in motors, men on the march, tents on the outlying sugar and pineapple plantations?it has been war of very...