Word: wick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candles in church is older than the church itself. Liturgical candles are traditionally of beeswax, for bees were once supposed to be virgin. The great paschal candle typifies Christ's flesh, its wick His soul, its flame the all-absorbing Divinity. On Candlemas Day (Feast of the Purification, Feb. 2) there is a special ceremony for blessing candles. A burning candle is placed in the hand of a person at baptism, and as Death comes...
...first teacher was his famed aunt, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, "mother of U. S. polo." Another teacher was his uncle. F. Ambrose Clark, who still drives a coach & four at Westbury, L. I. and goes abroad every year to hunt at Melton Mowbray. His older brothers are Albert C. Bost wick, whose racehorse Mate won the Preakness last year, and Dunbar Bost wick, who played on the Yale polo team which last week beat Harvard 13-to-9 for the intercollegiate champion ship. No self-educated sportsman like Eddie Eagan (see col. 3), Jockey Bost wick inherited a fortune before...
Echo. An echo of Frances T. Wick et al. v. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. et al. still reverberated in the Ohio courts last week. Frances T. Wick et al. were the complainants through whom Cyrus Stephen Eaton halted the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and so doing caused his own downfall (TIME, May 4, 1931 et seq.). The echo was an action by which Youngstown's minority sought to force the company to pay them the $1,000,000 they spent in legal fees and other expenses of the original action. Last week they were...
...making citric and oxalic acids from cane sugar. They have also made sucrose octa-acetate and sucrose benzoate, which are valuable in certain kinds of lacquers and adhesives and in the manufacture of paper. Sluggish Gasoline. There is a gasoline "which under ordinary conditions will burn only with a wick as kerosene does, but which in spite of this is satisfactory in tractors and special automobile engines in warm climates in summer," observed Robert Thompson Haslam, vice president of Standard Oil Development Co. He foresees industrial alcohol made from waste refinery gases. One of the largest current uses for these...
...squad of 12, with Coach Wachter and two managers, will stop at the Hotel War wick in Philadelphia. The game will take place in the famous Palestra of the University of Pennsylvania...