Word: useful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed Governor of his home state, Michoacan, in 1923 Minister to Germany, in 1925 Ambassador to Brazil, at which time he was dean of the Mexican Diplomatic Corps. Returning to Mexico he announced that he would no longer use the title "General," and much was made during the recent campaign of the fact that Mexico was electing a civilian president. In certain states where the "transition in idealism" was feared to be incomplete, however, handbills were issued extolling the merits of "Señor Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Engineer & General...
...inhalation contains five quarts of air. A person can never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts of air. Quiet inhalation adds a pint. Ordinary people use only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata...
Throughout the U. S. last week, many a musical citizen trilled on the keyboards of a Chickering, of a Knabe, of a Mason & Hamlin piano, all products of American Piano Co. factories. The Knabe is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Jeritza, Ponselle, Titta Ruffo use it. Moiseiwitsch, Bauer, Ravel endorse Mason & Hamlin. The Chickering advertises itself as "essentially a piano for the home," is the oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano...
...Irving Trust Co. has announced that the company will continue to operate so that the Metropolitan will still be Knabe equipped, the Chickering will go to many a home and artists will continue to use Mason & Hamlin. And stockholders were somewhat cheered by the assurance in the receivership petition that although the company at present was "unable to meet its matured debts by reason of lack of working capital and is unable to establish adequate means to borrow money." American Piano is "still solvent...
...move a stock up is talk of "secret processes and patents." Last February the International Combustion Engineering Corp., world's leading manufacturer of boilers, automatic stokers, ash handlers and power plant devices, opened a new plant at New Brunswick, N. J. Function of this plant was to use a newly acquired foreign patent for the distillation of coal, rendering from the fuel valuable gas byproducts, light oil, and a powdered semi-coke for use in steam power plants...