Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet was represented as a squad of robots. His official secretariat was lampooned as running around frantically to keep busy. In song he was reminded that he was but "king for a day." His administrative machine was described as "water-cooled, dry-batteried and using...
...classify most wines by merely sniffing their bouquet. For 35 years he has passed upon every vintage offered for purchase to the Savoy. Just now he is enjoying a brief U. S. vacation, resting his taste buds, sticking strictly and amiably for a fortnight to legal U. S. mineral water and the hotel business...
...what most people think is done, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take a little in my mouth to get the taste, and then spit it out. Incidentally America has some of the best water I have ever tasted." Worth memorizing is the fact that 1921 was a "great year" not only for Châateau Yquem but for almost every white wine of note in France or Germany. Memorable too are Châateau Lafite 1920 and Châateau Haut-Brion...
...buildings. From famed Naval Architect Henry J. Gielow came designs of the Armstrong Seadrome, a floating platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps in a chain across the Atlantic. In another scheme an airport was built on trestles over the Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series of scenic tableaux representing modern processes of building...
...Brunswick meet at Passamaquoddy Bay. The sun pours billions of heat units upon the earth; hence an experimental sun engine at Mount Wilson Observatory. Volcanic regions are hot just below the ground surface; hence on the west U. S. Coast and in Italy pipes are driven down, water poured into them, useful steam taken out. The surface of tropical waters is, much warmer than the depths; hence the work of Georges Claude, member of the French Academy of Sciences at Havana, to utilize temperature to run turbines...