Word: coke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School has a number of portrait medals the most valued being one of Sir Francis Bacon. Another medal of interest is one given by Sir Edward Coke to a friend upon his own appointment as Attorney General to King James I of England. It was the Custom at that period to distribute such medals as a memorial of important events in the lives of great statesmen and judicial officers...
...Rays. Several speeches set forth the new usefulness of X-rays in studying the crystal structures of pearls, limes, asbestos, butter, wax, etc. The X-ray studies of C. Norman Kemp in England on coal and coke cited, praised. X-raying of the structure of rubber, which is amorphous (noncrystalline) when unstretched and develops fibre-crystals when stretched at various tensions, was noted as a likely road to the discovery of how to make synthetic rubber...
...American Society for Testing Materials (A.S.T.M.) went to French Lick, Ind., last week for their 25th annual convention. There, in haunts usually filled by politicians clandestinely trading their influences, testers frankly presented 80 reports and papers on various metals, cements, ceramics, paints, oils, petroleum products, timber, coal, coke, rubber, textiles...
...doer, would inevitably appeal to George Harvey, the talker, gangling, circumloquacious George Harvey with his big Adam's apple, his quick loyalties and fierce antagonisms, his life of violent spurts in oblique directions. Both men had had adventurous and active early years, Henry Frick (born 1849) baking coke in Pennsylvania, learning business methods from his grandfather, flour merchant and distiller of famed Overholt Whisky; George Harvey as a reporter, working for the New York World, managing editor...
...later life Henry Frick, never a talkative man, said: "Success simply calls for hard work and devotion to your business, day and night." He grew old in that one trite and silly sentence. Looking back at youth, he could only see the smolder of coke fires, hear the tinny strum of a trolley going into a mine, hard work, devotion. No one can say that Frick did not work hard. No one can say that he might not have been successful with no luck at all. But the fact remains that, in the panic of 1873, a lot of Pennsylvania...