Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President John Goefield of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters heated a rivet into a glowing thing of beauty. Frank Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., passed it to some workmen. William Green, President of the A. F. of L., picked up a riveting hammer, sank the glowing thing into the keel of what is to be the 10,000-ton Pensacola, first of the U. S. "treaty cruisers." Thus organized labor demonstrated that it knew Oct. 27 was Navy Day, and not merely the opening of Apple Week. The host, Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, Commandant...
...respect political independence and territorial integrity. The sovereign independence of the defunct kingdom of Korea was guaranteed in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, and yet in 1905 an amendment to this alliance gave Japan imperialistic rights in Korea, and shortly after, the political independence of Korea was a thing of the past. Such would be the case with the Philippine Islands. They are too strategically located in the West Pacific region and too laden with vast and varied undeveloped natural resources to be able to remain in majestic self-isolation...
...private banking in a big way, extending credit and signing notes for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and, during the panic of 1873, for many a Baltimore and Philadelphia firm. He aided Southerners after the Civil War with credit, meeting George Peabody who was doing the same thing. Here was a coincidence: both men were bachelors, both had made fortunes of ten millions, Peabody by advancing cash, Hopkins by advancing credit. Johns Hopkins learned that George Peabody had given Harvard University an institute of archaeology, Yale an institute of physical science. "There are two memorials that will live forever," mused...
...thing he could be certain: the Cathode Ray would never be a war weapon unless whole armies were "marched right into it," for once outside their vacuum birthplace, the hurtling electrons all hit something soon and got slowed up; within a space of three feet when 350,000 volts were used; within five feet (calculated) if two million volts were used...
...Americans is different. For one thing, it dives into the melting pot business without fetching up an Irish-Jewish wedding. For another, it keeps itself, in this nervous age, as innocent of agitated movement as a stuffed porpoise. The entire second act, shunted in bodily from the vaudeville circuit, consists of a classroom scene, leaves the slight plot snoozing at practically the same complication it had reached when the curtain crept down on Act I. The audience was quick to appreciate that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors...