Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late one afternoon, President Coolidge sniffed enjoyably at false spring in the misty February air. Leaving off his overcoat, he set forth for a walk-down West Executive avenue, around the ellipse, up the opposite side. Then he did something that Presidents very seldom do: he went calling on a Cabinet official...
Last August the Shipping Board put on the auction block its two best Atlantic properties-the U. S. Lines and the American Merchant Line. The bids submitted were announced last month. High bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman of Manhattan, a daring and potent bond, real estate, public utility and air transport man. He offered: $13,782,000 for the six U. S. Liners (Leviathan, George Washington, President Harding, President Roosevelt, America, Republic); $2,300,000 for the five "Americans" (Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader); $218,000 for pier leaseholds and sundries-total...
...small that he had to have some one carry his gear to the top of the slide for him, Stanley Zarborski, 9, of Ironwood, Mich., jumped and floated through the air 72 feet, and later 62 feet, to win a free-for-all ski tournament at Racine, Wis., last week...
Versatile Lord Gorell is the author of Babes in the African Wood, Rosamund and Plush. He was Under-Secretary for Air (1921-22), and President of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (1920-22). While thus employed he composed Love Triumphant, and other poems. Seven years ago he married, and two years ago, at 43, begot his only son and heir, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes-a lusty infant said to prefer a dash of sugar in his milk...
Einstein's World. The first philosophical explanation of the world was by Thales (7th & 6th centuries, B. C.), Greek philosopher. He reasoned that all things were made of various combinations of earth, air, water and fire. Compared to modern natural philosophy, Thales was simply saying that a small man was rapidly walking down a broad street...