Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Doubleday's first announcement was to say that World's Work would revert to First Editor Page's principles. He promised that its oldtime "March of Events" section would again take its place in the front pages. Admitting that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island...
Walter Hines Page died in 1918 after serving as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Succeeding him as Editor of World's Work have been his son Arthur Wilson Page, Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edgar French Strother, and most lately, Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of Ladies Home Journal. Last year Doubleday, Page & Co. ceased to be exclusively the Doubleday family business, by merging with the business of Book Publisher George H. Doran. Last week, in an objective sort of way, Doubleday, Doran & Co. announced that Russell Doubleday was to step in and edit World...
...histories of Doubleday, Page & Co. and World's Work have not been parallel. The company has always prospered. The magazine has, as magazines will, languished from time to time...
Steam, or water vapor, operates a piston or turbine by the fall in its temperature. The higher the vapor is heated, the greater the pressure which must be controlled and the work the steam can do. Engineer Emmet sought a material whose vapor could carry great quantities of heat at relatively low pressures. He found mercury the best. It boils at 675° F., instead of at 212° F. for water. At 884° F. pressure is only 70 lbs. on a gauge, at 1,000° F. only 180 lbs. Those pressures are sufficient to run turbines. After...
...upon education." He suggested more experimental education, commended the Experimental College at Wisconsin, the house-plan at Harvard, the segregated Freshman plan at Yale, the year-abroad-for-Romance-language-students at Smith, the Antioch plan of combining in five-or-ten-week shifts study and business or professional work. Lastly he pleaded for "individuality in a world steadily being leveled by standardization...