Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future in the anthracite fields. The use of bituminous is important not only for the moment but for the future. This the public should understand and appreciate. When this realization reaches the anthracite district, the operators and miners will get together. If not, they will commit industrial suicide?a thing which they have almost done...
...mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk dealer. He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing...
...examining life as she does for "strong" ideas whether pleasant or unpleasant, she fastened upon glandular rejuvenation and wrote that gold mine in pseudoclinical vulgate, Black Oxen. Now comes the ductless glands, another "strong" idea and similarly demonstrated, if you care for that sort of thing...
Greater than his triumph was his faith. Lansdowne declared, not one, but many times, that dirigibles could be built to withstand any storm, that the Shenandoah was so built. But he told his wife-before his last trip that the one thing which could break the ship was the line-squall?the conflict of warm and cold shafts of air, pressing from below and above. He knew that such storms occurred near the locality where he was killed, for at Greenfield, Ohio, he was born 37 years...
Isostasy. The earth's crust is not uniformly rigid, and a good thing, too. If it were, the stress of gravity would destroy the equilibrium of the spinning globe. The theoretic principle maintaining this equilibrium is called isostasy, manifest in earthquakes, or crust- shiftings. Earthquakes are thus a sort of blessing. To isostasy, these lines...