Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waiting, Mrs. Ferguson appeared in the rotunda and I walked out and talked with her for five or six minutes. It was just a social visit. I did not even think of mentioning the object of my visit with her. Then I went back to wait my turn to see the Governor. In a few 'minutes I was ushered in to see Jim. While I talked with him, Mrs. Ferguson sat at her desk and signed official documents...
Some time ago Congress authorized the Patent Office to turn over models of old inventions to the Smithsonian Institution and give away or destroy all models not wanted by the museum. More than 2,000 requests for old models have been made. The longest request was from Thomas A. Edison-five closely typed pages listing all his early inventions. Henry Ford made a blanket request for all mechanical engineering devices not wanted by the Government...
...which the invention rests is simple. A permanent magnet is buried in the track at a point opposite each semaphore. A pick-up coil is placed under part of the locomotive. When passing over the magnet in the roadbed, this pick-up coil receives the impulse, which in turn is communicated to the apparatus on the engine controlling the air brakes. If the signal is set at "caution" or "danger," the magnet reflects that indication and the speed of the train is automatically reduced. If the engineer does not heed this warning but allows his train to pass...
...struggling peasant family, the fiddling goatherd from the hills, the Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their...
Protest against "overemphasis", upon football, ancient and often as unreasonable as the malady itself, has taken a new turn which may well prove decisive. For now it is the undergraduate who leads our way--the Harvard Crimson and the Yale News concurring. What should be a sport has become an arduous grind, endured by most of the players only because college loyalty demands the sacrifice as no less a luminary of the gridiron than George Owen declared of late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged...