Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Semi-monthly meetings for the entire staff of the Dental School were held during the academic year for the purpose of better coordinating the teaching of the various departments, each department in its turn taking charge and presenting an outline of the work it was attempting to do. Frank discussions of the material offered were held and we look for improvement in the teaching for the coming year...
...when, a prohibitive duty is placed on blackstrap, alcohol makers say they will turn then, not to corn but to synthetic alcohol, now developed to a point where only the cheapness of blackstrap delays its perfection...
...three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then related products were adjusted therefrom; 3) minor crops were given special protection to induce farmers now producing surplus cereals to turn to them as crop variants; 4) "apparent changes greatly exceed actual changes" in the bill; 5) "We should be self-sustaining and self-sufficient...
...pleasant. Such, however, was the arrangement last week urged by P. A. S. Franklin, head of International Mercantile Marine Co. (operating the White Star,* the Red Star and other lines), who suggested reduction of capital from 120 million dollars to 30 million. Not only were common stockholders asked to turn in five shares for one, but holders of preferred were requested to surrender their holdings, on a share-for-share basis, for new preferred plus a $20 cash payment. The cash payment would be in settlement of large accrued and unpaid dividends. President Franklin thought that only some such plan...
...narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls. Pieced together, the fragments recount Cavender, a man, virile, sensitive, arrogant, none too faithful to Laramie, his charming wife. Suspecting that she in turn had been unfaithful to him, he dashed her over a cliff. When early workmen found her body in the gorge below, he left the village, brokenhearted. For twelve years he wandered and wondered, hoping that he had been justified. He returned at last to the scene of his crime. Her presence confronted...