Word: worked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work two hours away as $12-a-week draughtsman for solemn, pouchy-eyed Rudolf Eichemeyer of Yonkers, himself a political refugee turned manufacturer of hat machinery and the first successful (Otis) elevator motor...
...Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Cos. were merged to form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors...
...have been haunted always by the Southern highlanders' need of a recorder. Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense. To do this it has been necessary to make a long study of their idiom and the dialects from which it is compounded, and to reduce their grammar and syntax to a definite working scheme...
With equally bright insight, some impersonality, average epigrams and over all a great unconscious pathos continues the story of how Ex-Wife tried to make Ex-Husband's image dead in her heart. Numerous distractions, hard liquor, hard work and handsome men fill a certain gap, until she marries one of the last. Heroine and author are a bobbed, grey-eyed, short brunette still short of 30, mother of a five-year-old son. She is Katharine Ursula Parrott, ex-wife of Reporter Lindsay Parrott of the New York Evening Post...
Concluding Salesman Collier's text was the slogan: "Get the weight of a common aim, a common purpose, behind both your prayers and your work. go TO CHURCH...