Word: watts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Elijah Watt Sells, 66, famed public accountant, senior partner of the firm of Haskins & Sells, with branches in London, Paris, Havana, Shanghai. He served twice as President of the American Institute of Public Accountants, affected (in 1893) a revision of the accounting system of the U. S. Government. He was a member of the Union League Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, etc. His father, Elijah Sells, was auditor of the Treasury under President Lincoln...
...weight is an important element in a draft horse. These tests proved that horses have more reserve power available than was believed. They can exert from six to ten times as much power for a short time as they ordinarily use, without injury. The horsepower was defined by James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, 150 years ago, and is a practical unit in measuring the energy that one horse can expend continuously throughout a working day; but it takes no account of the reserve power over short periods, which may amount, as the tests show, to more than...
...Intercollegiates; the remaining players will arrive July second. Five of the English net-men are students at Cambridge University--M. D. Horne, C. Ramaswami, J. N. Lowry, J. H. Van Allen, and J. Wilder; the other four players are representatives of Oxford--S. F. Hepburn, W. S. Watt, J. A. Lezard, and A. P. Kingsley...
...William E. Robson of the London School of Economics gave the principal talk at the Liberal Club's discussion with the three visiting foreign students last night. Robson compared the present day Fabian Society, composed of men like Sidney Watt and Robert Tawney, to the small group headed by John Stuart Mill which changed the whole trend of thought in England after the Napoleonic Wars...
With a new watt tube transmitting set installed, progress at the University station has been very satisfactory. Within the present week, the station has communicated with other experimental stations as far west as Minnesota and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. A considerable number of messages are being handled every night, both from and to the University, as well as relayed messages. From 7 o'clock, until 10 o'clock every evening the receiving set can be used for broadcast reception...