Word: four
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Senator Nye challenged his eligibility. The charge: more than $600,000 was spent to elect the ticket on which Mr. Davis ran. The Senate's prompt vote (58-0-27) to seat Mr. Davis gave Pennsylvania its full elected Senate representation for the first time in nearly four years. As Senator Davis took his seat, he felt he had achieved a precedent by transferring directly out of the Cabinet into the Senate...
...Four years before he was elected to his first public office (Governor of New Jersey ). Woodrow Wilson made a remarkable address to the members of Manhattan's erudite Lotos Club. Last week the Lotos Club again served as a forum for a No. i Democrat-Owen D. Young. Not Mr. Young, as honor guest, but Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the club's president, gave the event a political twist. Introducing Mr. Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant does assume office...
...volt tube not yet perfected for demonstration. Hospitals today use a 200,000-volt tube. Five billion dollars worth of radium (20 Ib.) would be necessary to produce gamma rays equal in power to Dr. Millikan's X-rays. The entire U. S. medical profession today possesses only four million dollars worth of radium. Practical use of the Caltech apparatus has not yet been demonstrated. Before it is used on human beings, plants and animals will be subjected to the rays to test their effect on living tissue...
...little about how good the operas are. Chicagoans, whether they approve of Mary Garden or not, agree that she is the one who puts life into the company. For 20 years she has done so. She went to Chi cago with her name made. She was one of four daughters born in Aberdeen, Scot land, to a Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Garden. Mr. Garden, now a dignified old gentleman with a white goatee, migrated to the U. S., went into the bicycle business (later he was an executive of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.). Mrs. Garden followed with the girls...
...author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always baked her pies in square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard circular pie cut into pieces of eight allowed but 45 degrees per mouth. True, there were four corners to the eight-section pie with crust on two sides, but . . . that was why you ate pie. If you preferred filling to crust, you might just as well eat apple sauce...