Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These disorders drew protests against the use of troops in Happy Valley. Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York State resigned as a director of the Bemberg and Glantzoff companies after futile attempts to induce their managements to settle the strike, to forego the use of armed forces...
General Juan Vicente Gomez, for 20 years dictator of Venezuela, who recently refused to serve as President for another term, but moved by the earnest pleadings of the entire Venezuelan Congress, accepted the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Venezuelan Army, last week found active use for his new title...
...Free instruction of school children, in public and private schools alike, on the Evils of the Drink Habit. All textbooks, irrespective of subject, to carry a lecture against the use of alcohol...
...Similar is the case of radial air-cooled gasoline motors, and in-line water-cooled gasoline motors. Patents, however, still endure on Knight sleeve-valve motors. Hence in the U. S. only Willys-Knight and Steams-Knight as yet may use that type in passenger cars. Charles Y. Knight, sleeve-valve inventor, still lives, richly and quietly, in California (TIME, Sept...
...Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device now used on high tension lines...