Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Suit has been brought in France against a physician for injuries alleged to be due to X-rays penetrating from his clinic across a street and into a house. A committee of the Ministry of Hygiene, including Madame Curie, is investigating the possible physical effects of X-rays at a distance and through intervening matter...
...Government lost its suit to enjoin the New York Coffee ant Sugar Exchange. Four Federal judges refused to grant the requested injunction against trading in sugar futures, on the ground that no conspiracy in violation of the Sherman Act or the Wilson Tariff Act was revealed. Attorney General Daugherty announced his intention of appealing the decision to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile U. S. District Attorney Hayward has issued subpoenas upon sugar brokers to produce their books before the Federal Grand Jury, with the implication that a Grand Jury investigation into the sugar market was projected, although aimed...
...William Eastwood of Framingham reported to the Framingham Chief of Police that he had picked up a man answering to Clapp's description at about 8.30 o'clock Thursday morning outside Framingham. Eastwood was on his way to Marlboro by motor and found a man in a blue serge suit "and white sneakers" without hat walking along the highway towards Worcester. He said he was a Harvard student working his way to Albany. Eastwood took him as far as Framingham Center where he took the Worcester road on foot...
Earlier in the morning at 7.40 o'clock Franklin Macormick, who has a business address at 178 Tremont Street, Boston, saw a man in the Framingham Railroad station who answered the description exactly. Macormick stated that the stranger wore blue trousers and the top of a bathing suit over his shirt. He was alleged to have accosted him and to have made inquiries regarding a cheap clothing store, saying "all I want is something to make myself less conspicuous...
...seem limitless. When a maxim silencer has been invented for airplanes, and non-clogging pipe-stems have become actualities, inventors and scientists can turn their attention to the making of articles once suggested in joke. Stephen Leacock's "Man in Asbestos" may yet come into being, dressed in a suit of everlasting knickerbockers, and cating concentrated food pills for nourishment. "Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks of army boots. Safety razors will be designed which will have regard for the quality of mercy, and will leave...