Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Berlin came a report of sucfessful tests of a metal noncollapsible diving suit. The suit has a metal body built solidly like the conning tower of a submarine, and flexible aluminum arms and legs. The air pressure within is kept normal,* and the air purified and replenished chemically...
This type of suit is not new (TIME, Jan. 26). The interest lies in the reported success of the present suit. Its inventor is said to have spent 50 minutes in it at 460 feet and 20 minutes at 525 feet.†The tests were made at Walchen Lake, in the Bavarian Alps...
...that this is the course to take. it would mean limiting the opponents of any college that undertook that change to those who did likewise. But if some one leading university one of these days firmly took this stand we believe that enough others would be glad to follow suit to make it practicable. And a difficult problem would have been solved...
...Spring being in the air, the President went windowshopping on F Street without his overcoat. A sample of some goods, sent by the owner of a woolen mill in Lawrence, Mass., with an offer to furnish enough free material to make the President an inauguration suit, was returned with the remark that the President liked the material and would...
...record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett was ill of typhoid fever. Recovered, he last week brought suit for $15,000,000 against the Chase National Bank, the Chase Securities Corporation, Manhattan, and against Eugene V. R. Thayer, President of the Bank. The complaint -50 typewritten pages-charges violation of trust, states that the Chase corporations took part in the Boston conspiracy. Mr. Willett deposited his stock...