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...liquid in the tube and remains non-liquid even after being fed into the lighter which is accomplished via the "force-feed" system. This forced feeding thoroughly impregnates the cotton in the fuel chamber of the lighter, minimizes evaporation, and yet permits Lyterlife to feed into the wick as readily as a liquid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Died. Myron C. Wick, 38, Ohio broker, plaintiff in the suit to enjoin the merger between Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of pneumonia, a week after he had been taken ill in court, at Youngstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...blatant thing at Harvard was intended as a tribute to the boys whose generous impulse made them rush from their college to join the students from other lands on the battlefields...Well., the job had to be done anyhow, just as, 15 or 20 years before, Lady War wick's portrait had to be got through with. You can always count on a line of soldiers to stir people; a good fierce American eagle would be a useful 'property', as the theatre chape call it, and 'Our Old Flag,' from centre-stage, in the clarion tones of a Fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sargent Mural in Widener is Storm Center of Recent Criticism by Pach | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

...begins when Wick Snell, a laconic newshawk, leaves his job to become a press agent. The next act discovers Public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...women, or pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible across the stage in The Racket does the best drinking while John Cromwell hands in a properly languid sketch of the cheerless, sardonic Wick Snell, who knows his business well enough to have an even more thorough detestation of the activities it reports. There was observed also in the play a crumpled fellow, who, on the occasions when he turned his front to the audience, generally had his mouth too full to talk. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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