Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Ervine provides a quotation for the title page of Sewell Stokes' new book of interviews "Pilloried!" to the effect that "every man in this country should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind...
...With present methods of manufacture, these voids appear to be inevitable. When such voids form, a minute electric discharge takes place within the void; that is, small electric arcs form, and the molecules of air find themselves in an electric field which causes them to attain high velocities. This effect is called ionization. The ions then impinge on the paper and oil, and have the effect of a rapid and continual bombardment. They not only perforate the paper with holes, but also because of the formation of nitrates and ozone, cause adverse chemical actions in the impregnated oil. This insidious...
...variety of lenses for rapid photography of the outer reaches of the Corona. A special Ultra Violet camera is being taken from the Mt. Wilson Observatory, which has a silvered quartz lense especially designed for the purpose of photographing this phenomenon in invisible light of too high frequency to effect...
...same time amusing of our experiments was that performed upon the students in the sociology course at Minnesota. For obvious reasons, it was altogether necessary that we conduct all operations without the knowledge of the students, and with this in mind we outlined and carried into effect the following program of action...
...August, 1927, Mr. Merseles as President and Mr. Brown as Assistant to the President. Both Mr. Merseles and Mr. Brown came to Johns-Manville from Montgomery Ward, and both made the change after the House of Morgan had become interested in Johns-Manville. Thus Mr. Brown was, in effect, transferred from mail-orders to roofing, said good-bye to catalogues and greeted shingles. It is conceivable enough that should the Morgan group acquire a soap factory and need a good executive for it, Mr. Brown might cease to concern himself with roofing and begin to concern himself with soap...