Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paying the price of drudgery and discipline. So is the American people. . . . He is our first hair shirt hero. . . . Mr. Hoover detests and dreads the mob. . . . His is a detailed, though somewhat disorderly mind. He gives off light, not heat. He is as dynamic as a 30-watt bulb. . . . He can work with underlings but not with equals. . . . Mr. Hoover was a promoter rather than a mining expert. His salary was $5,000 for mining work, $95,000 as a financial adviser. . . . His English [is] no more precise or pure now than when he flunked this course at Leland Stanford...
...flares again. People who all their lives have lived by means of the devices he has invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an André Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a Charles Augustin de Coulomb, a Luigi Galvani or a James Watt, are reminded that there still is a Nikola Tesla (pronounced Tcshlah) who long ago rave them the Tesla induction motor which made alternating current practical, and the Tesla transformer which steps up oscillating currents to high potentials (15,000,000 volts he avers, with 100,000,000 possible...
HARVARD--Hurvich, Lowman, Galant, g.; Robinson, c.p.; Myerson, Hodge, Thorndike, p.; Henderson, Thorndike, 1d.; Brinkley, Angle, 2d.; Faude, Angle, 3d.; Pattison, Amazeen, c.; Pope, 3a.; Cochrane, Graziano, Tucker, 2a.; Gulick, la.; Hobbs, Watt, Owens, o.h.; Johnson, Watt...
...summary: HARVARD PRINCETON E. C. Carter, f.b. f.b., Blackiston Whitney, r.w. r.w., Sloan Pugh, r.c. r.g., Buffum Lawier, l.c. l.c., Draudt Watt, l.w. l.w., Fanshawe Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Johnson Royd, h.b. h.b., Harak W. C. Carter, 3f. 3f., Cooper Farris, 3f. 3f., James Potter, 3f. 2f., Brassler Earling, 2f. 2f., Haber Elmore, 2f. 2f., Campbell Conant, l.f. l.f., Garner Dockery, l.f. l.f., McConnell Schwyzer, l.f. l.f., Paine...
Score-Harvard 19, Boston Rugby Club 3 Tries Lawler 2, Watt 2, Farris. Converted tries-Lawler 2, Penalty goal-Vivian. Referee-T.P. Fry 2grl. Time-two 45 minute periods...