Word: organization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet into the high, old fashioned shoes affected by many a French elder statesman. At his age?he will be 69 this month ?M. Poincare knew that there was nothing unwonted, nothing crucial about an inflammation of the gland he was about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed to be peculiarly liable to deterioration in old men, to communicable infection in young. Last week, yielding only to the onslaught of age, M. Poincarè stepped briskly from...
Displeased at the Commission's order, at the company's formation, was many a news organ. Representatives of the Gannett chainpapers attended the organization meetings at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, later declined to participate. "Such a company will not give the service we want," said one of them. Moved to court action was the Hearst-owned Universal Service Wireless, Inc., organized last year following the Commission's first allocation order. Last week it filed notice of appeal in Washington's Court of Appeals asking that the Commission be enjoined from allocating the wavelengths to the new corporation, that...
Statistics are skeletons of history. Persons with inexact minds do not like statistics, yet without them industry would have no record. Out of many statistics published last week, most interesting were skyscraper figures in Skyscraper, house organ of Thompson-Starrett Co., builders. These figures showed that in the U. S. there are 778 buildings of ten or more stories, including 377 buildings of 21 or more stories. New York has more than half the buildings in both classifications. Surprising New York statistic is that more than half the high buildings are between 14th and 59th streets, that Midtown Manhattan...
...abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin, stooped shoulders, and his stomach. Harmless looking from the outside, it is this organ which has caused him more woe than anything else in life. A folkstory says this stomach is "lined with silver." The Master dons one of several hundred ties, selects one of 60 suits. He glances at the New York Times. At 8 he masticates eclectically. After breakfast someone reads...
Bamberger's also publishes Charm, elaborate house organ with 100,000 Bamberger readers...