Word: apexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geisha girls of Japan, skilful with the lute and larynx, forming the apex of Japan's musical culture, were infuriated two weeks ago (TIME, July 16) when they were compared by a committee of 14 moralists to the rude night-club entertainers of Manhattan. Japanese Geisha girls count U. S. music a noisy nonsense and even the finest of U. S. singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest...
Boxes and tables will be placed in the Delta and will be furnished and decorated by the Committee. The larger boxes will have room for from 12 to 16 occupants, will be near the Hall, while the smaller boxes, holding from six to eight will be near the apex of the Delta. Tables which seat one to three couples will be situated in the middle of the Delta. Two of the boxes and six of the tables will be reserved for the patronesses, whose names are to be announced later...
...York's Sirovich, who is a doctor, mixed professional data with social theory, saying: ". . . In my humble opinion the greatest evil of this country today is overindulgence in every line of endeavor . . . drunkenness swinging the pendulum to one apex while Prohibition carries it to the heights of the other. Temperance, therefore, should be the avenue we should travel in approaching this great and momentous problem. . . . Shall we have our Government act as a Lucretia Borgia of medieval days, who poisoned all who came into intimate contact with her? . . . I am in favor of taking the Government...
...lines, the five lighter on one side, the heavier on the other, extending back diagonally across the field. At the signal the two lines ran forward, converged at the captain's post and kept on in a diagonal direction, gradually turning to form a wedge behind the apex of which the runner was safe for a 20 or 30 yard gain...
Some important heat appliance brands displayed were: Westinghouse Simplex American Beauty Sunbeam Dover Empire Hotpoint Apex...