Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drug manufacturers no longer work under cover, turn now to the A. M. A. council for endorsement of new medicines, reported Dr. Olin West (Chicago), secretary of the association. They have been frightened out of extravagant claims; the number of fraudulent devices is decreasing. Some unscrupulous cosmeticians still scamper naughtily on the sidelines, putting poisons into paints and powders, putting false statements into advertising. For these legislation is sought...
...them for the first time. Flamingo was in front with Ranjit Singh close to him; then came Port Hole and Royal Minstrel and Felstead and Sunny Trace ridden by Gordon Richards, England's premier jockey. They left the level and ran wildly downhill toward the hairpin turn called Tattenham Corner. No horse has a chance unless he is one of the first two or three to get round. Flamingo was still in front but now Felstead came round him into the turn and raced for the wire with Flamingo losing ground. Black Watch came out of the pack...
Japan's rivers no longer dash down Japan's mountains only to spray cherry trees and artists painting their delectable scrolls. The waters now swoop into flumes and pipes and against great turbine fins to light bulbs in Japan's homes and turn the machines of her factories. Japan's electrical enterprises now are surpassed only by those of the U. S. and Germany. They represent $1,834,000,000 capital...
...rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo Electric Light Co. supplies it. No wonder, remarks Wall Street, the company has paid dividends every one of its 42 years of existence and had $45.344,701 gross revenue last year...
Miss Newman undoubtedly possesses a gift for social satire. Given a training in the rudiments of good English and deprived of her more erotically minded heroines she should be able to turn out something quite amusing in the way of an acid commentary of life as it is lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle...