Word: parentes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years President Archibald Robertson Graustein has fought the battles of paper and pulp with one hand, while with the other he has built up the second enterprise equally gigantic, and at first glance unrelated. International Paper is now the world's chief producer of newsprint; its new (1928) parent, International Paper & Power Co. is one of the world's largest producers of power...
...fire department managed to confine the conflagration to two sitting rooms and a hall on the first floor, but it threatened for a while to spread throughout the entire building. Bedrooms located on the first floor also escaped damage, as did the Fly Club, nearby parent organization...
Chief of the Imperial General Staff Prince Kotohito Kanin, who had been designated "Honorable Girdle Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
...against about 1,400 cc. for modern man. But when Dr. Broom had had a good look at their teeth he sent excited reports to the British journal Nature claiming that these old creatures must be assigned a place very close to the point of human divergence from the parent primate stock...
...Parent of fluid drive is the hydraulic turbine principle, almost as old as the automobile itself, but until recently not made efficient. Already in use in the British Daimler's "fluid flywheel," it is also the basis for hydraulic transmissions being installed this year by General Motors on 150 busses. The General Motors adaptation replaces not only the clutch, but all transmission gears except reverse, relieving the bus driver of the job of clutching and shifting gears in ordinary stop-and-go operation, making less harried the task of driving, opening and closing doors and collecting fares...