Word: cheapness
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...coal for man's better industry, so at Paris last week it plunged into tropical waters and came out dripping with potential electricity. At Paris the medium for science was Thermo-dynamist Georges Claude,* who told the French Academy of Science that it should be possible to develop cheap power from sun-heated tropical waters...
...often the case that men of standing and ability shun public office because of the difficulties they are likely to encounter through the trickery of cheap politicians...
...Greek Slave" in the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, which has the air at first glance of being a young woman clad only in police handcuffs. Aside from this bit of salesmanship by sex appeal, however, the contents of Your Body was almost humorously devoid of erotic motif. Ponderous, on cheap paper, its make-up was technically horrible...
...basic elements of courtesy. Asia, most people know that such attacks as Harvard students have made on their rivals are slightly tinged with green: that is, that they spring from envy, and hence indicate not superiority but acute consciousness of inferiority. In other words, they make Harvard look cheap, not Yale or Princeton. And on Saturday Harvard looked very cheap indeed. New York World...
London (Dorothy Gish). According to this picture, from Thomas Burke's Limehouse saga, all a girl needs is the right environment. Plump Dorothy Gish is on the verge of being sold to a Chinaman for three pounds sterling- dirt cheap at the price, too. Fleeing the yellow peril, Dorothy faints in front of a high class a la carte restaurant, is adopted by a sympathetic, wealthy family, marries a good-looking artist...