Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy person. Few days after his inauguration last week he was to argue a case against the City of Baltimore, which for two years he has kept enjoined from building a viaduct which Taxpayer Henry Louis Mencken describes as being "useless as a suspension bridge over the city reservoir." President Gordon is a bibliophile. Some years ago Federal officials seized as "obscene" a set of Rabelais sent him from a European bindery. When Congress passed the amendment admitting recognized classics for private collectors, President Gordon persuaded Secretary Mellon to remove Rabelais from the Treasury Department's blacklist. Lately President...
...Lindbergh centrifuge the reservoir for blood is a conical chamber resembling an ocarina. Piercing the butt end and extending almost to the apex is a thin tube with an adjustable inlet. By means of the inlet arm the "ocarina" is fixed horizontally to a vertical reservoir of replacement fluid. As the machine rotates and produces a centrifugal force up to 650 times gravity, the corpuscles settle out of the blood. Replacement fluid flows into the "ocarina" chamber, dilutes the original fluid which flows off through a vent. In a first test of 15 minutes Col. Lindbergh demonstrated that only...
...profoundly ameliorated the conditions which had made N. C. C. seem necessary. Since credit is almost entirely psychological, the main effect of the national banking stabilizer was psychological, immediate, far ahead of its actual financial performances. It began to be seen that, with a $400,000,000 cash reservoir to draw on, N. C. C. might never actually have to advance any large sums to banks on the verge of trouble...
Even Boston, for which a loyal Mayor claims a reservoir of culture, even to landscapping his name thereto in a fair, bold hand, can support little but farces and melodrama on its stage. As a stronghold of sensationalism, Boston thus shows the pruritan virus still at its worst. Until questions of sex can be fairly dealt with, fairly given a time and place, and fairly forgotten for something slightly more entertaining, Mrs. Grundy will sit in our audiences. Until then every stock company must be Comstocked and critics can always expect an infusion of Bowdlerism and balderdash...
John Rockefeller Prentice, the grandson of John Davison Rockefeller who worked his way through Yale as a telephone operator and is now a student at Yale's law school, wanted a swim. He and a crony who works for an undertaker went to Maltby Lake Reservoir, near West Haven, Conn., took off their clothes, jumped in. A policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis...