#era

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

#base #before #constituent #definition #general

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#auditions #came #desperate #found #go

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#been #custer #general #given #had

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#agreements #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #committee

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#chamber #columns #echo #general #general manager

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. ↗

— Richard Lewis

#analyst #back #because #behind #help

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#attention #because #command #education #finances

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#benefits #financially #full #generation #legally

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#adolescent #infection #lot #more #rate