Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
...machinated secretly against Plutarco Elias Calles when he was President and later against his staunch friend President Emilio Portes Gil. So highly placed were the insurrectos that until they actually broke out their banners of revolt, nothing could be done to check their plotting. Once they chose to take the field, and lost, their power within the Army and State was broken...
...General Motors Corp. (Michigan), Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each State the high school student who has most distinguished himself in scientific subjects during the present school year. In August, Mr. Edison will give the 48 students an examination, will take the one with the highest mark into his New Jersey laboratories for instruction (sometimes personal). The Governors of 18 states have already notified their Boards of Education to help hunt...
...member of the alcohol family. Industrial alcohol is ethyl alcohol denatured by the addition of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for beverage purposes. There are other denaturants, such as sulphuric ether, turpentine, benzol and animal oil, but methyl is generally employed. Thus when unskillful persons unsuccessfully attempt to take the denaturing out of denatured alcohol, the familiar phenomena of wood alcohol poisoning usually result. Ethyl alcohol can theoretically be made from any sugar, cellulose or starch-Germany, for instance, has a potato-alcohol industry-but in the U. S. alcohol is usually derived from sugar-cane molasses, cheap...
...still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania R. R., now snugly located in Manhattan, could not well be expected to take interest in additional bridges. And Builder Lindenthal and his associates were growing old. Undiscouraged, however, he continued with his plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch...