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Word: aerials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhode Island?" only to have the jury return a verdict of not guilty. And to pitch the question on a more adventurous plane, even now a governmental quibble arises concerning payment of duty on pictures taken by Byrd at the North Pole. Thus does the energy and initiative of aerial explorers whittle down to $12 due the customs authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIPPERY JUSTICE | 5/27/1926 | See Source »

That the news of the safe arrival of the Norge preempted more, than three quarters of the New York Times front page is a superb tribute to Roald Amundsen, dramatist. To startle a standard, conservative journal into heaving headlines is indeed a feat as remarkable as aerial exploration of the Arctic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARCTIC AMPHITHEATRE | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...WJAZ could snatch without restraint at any wave length it pleased, other stations could do the same. Aerial chaos would result. So radio listeners with $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 invested in receiving sets waited for a court decision. More anxiously waited the radio manufacturers and broadcasters, who realized keenly that broadcasting must be constant over wave lengths and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Aerial Chaos | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...very name of radio burglar lurks romance. In reading of his mysterious murders to obtain receiving sets, one gets the uncanny impression that he materializes out of the ether and enters by way of the aerial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PERVERTED ARIEL | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

...Forward Pass. To discourage the prevailing indiscriminate recourse to aerial attack by losing teams in the last few minutes of play, the Committee ruled: "In a sequence of downs?that is to say, between first down and first down?one incompleted forward pass will be permitted without a penalty, but thereafter each incompleted forward pass will draw a penalty of five yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Rules | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

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