Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink White Rock pumped directly from the company's springs in Waukesha, Wis. The scheme had been conceived by one Charles Welsh who had been given the springs by his uncle, but after several miles of pipe were laid, it was discovered that the cost was too great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought back. From then on White Rock's sales bubbled upward. In 1906 the present...
...Psychologist Henri Bergson, most famed student of laughter, says it is mainly a social phenomenon. "Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. . . . However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary...
...jeopardy and voluntarily went to court, where they convinced the magistrate: that the car's exhaust pipe was clogged with water, that the gas had escaped into the closed car through a pipe leak, that the men had died within the short period of 15 minutes because even a slight amount of imbibed alcohol increases a person's susceptibility to carbon monoxide intoxication, that the driver was drunk from gas rather than from beer...
T.A.T.'s fare-cut was one more evidence of the Empty Seat Problem and the operators' determination to solve it, even during the sparsest flying season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...