Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this question," said Chief Justice Rt. Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin, urbanely, "the Court was, of course, in no way concerned with the desirability or undesirability of the presence of women in the Senate. . . . Should Parliament eventually determine to make provision for women Senators, it will be done by the use of language very different from that to be found in the present...
...Millikan pooh-poohed the fear of more timid citizens and blasted the hopes of more venturesome engineers. Man can never use the atom as a source of power or destruction by exploding and releasing its energy. This happens in Nature's laboratory; can be observed, measured, photographed; but the atoms available for the experimental laboratory are already in a fairly stable form. Splitting them up would require more power than they would set free...
...invention was a ring device for spinning cotton thread from cotton fibre more rapidly and perfectly than any previous machine. Mainly because of it is the present vastness of the world's textile industries possible. Of 160,000,000 cotton spinning spindles in the world, 100,-ooo.ooo use the Thorp ring. Very little is known about the inventor. The Ency-clopcedia Britannica mentions him only twice, misspelling his name "Thorpe" both times...
...Pennsylvania would take the Lehigh Valley, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois or Chicago & Alton, trackage rights along Lake Erie, the Norfolk & Western, use of the Virginian...
...Baltimore & Ohio would take the Reading, the Jersey Central, the Western Maryland, the Wabash, use of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh and of the Monon...