Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen had to adapt herself and did so grudgingly. Besides the new Tariff ideas in her party, she balked at Tammany and the "grape juice" tradition of her family was affronted by the Smith wetness. She refused to let the National Committee use her photograph...
...factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly on the fact that the American employers are not afraid to pay high wages...
...Fang Lai, Chinese research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, last week reported that he had found a good use for beryllium, one of the rare earth metals. By substituting beryllium oxide for soda lime silicate he has produced a harder, more refractory, more transparent glass than the usual kind. It lets the sun's ultraviolet light pass through...
Doctors hope to keep pneumonia low this year. Their best advice is to guard against common colds. If colds develop, the patient should rest in bed and eat nourishing foods. If pneumonia develops, alert doctors this year have a new serum to use. Old ones required three injections to cure. The new one, announced last week by Dr. William Hallock Park of New York City's health department, the man who has done so much bacteriological work to prevent disease, requires but two injections. Its supply so far is scant. Not until December will there be enough...
...changes contemplated for Boston will take about three years to completed. When the "Progressive Control" system is installed however Boston will have the same methods of traffic control as are now in effective use in Los Angeles and Chicago. Dr. McClintock also advocated and was responsible for the adoption of the system in these two cities...