Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace and civilization. The Rhodes Scholars have the will to serve society as well as they can, but society must be willing to be served by them. To our friends the constructive critics, one would like to say that they must exercise patience. Three years at Oxford cannot turn even an able and gifted man into a world-conqueror. It can make even a dull and prejudiced man realize that national animosities spring from misunderstanding and unwillingness to entertain a more humane view of international relations. An Oxford education turns out thoughtful men able to help, not doctrinaires with...
...such a turn of events was paved a little more than eighteen months ago when this city witnessed the opening of its first hotel. Until then its minority was tragically evident from the fact that even its own guests had to be entertained across the river. When travelling salesmen were comfortably accommodated in an hostelry of another city, they found as much amusement in the hotel situation at Cambridge as in the story of the fat lady in the pullman car; but on the other hand, when they were forced to the inconvenience of leaving town in order merely...
...commercial. Especially is this true of the Carolinas. where all is tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...
...aroused by the two or three horseless thing-a-ma-jigs that sometimes moved through the streets, especially on Sundays, chugging and snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago...
...there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would do. ... Thus I have seen...