Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York where there are no free ferries, some bankers with $25,000,000 in cash and ample credit were last week seeking permission to build a colossal toll bridge across the narrows from Staten Island to Brooklyn. A narrows bridge is opposed by the War Department, which foresees New York Harbor clogged by its debris in case...
...plan of attack by boat, plane, sled, foot. Never before has an expedition been so carefully, so richly equipped. Never before has the leader been in such efficient communication with the rest of the world. Day by day, month by month, five men at wireless stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, have been and will be receiving messages from Little America, Bay of Whales, Antarctica-the copyrighted property of the New York Times and associated newspapers. Some of the messages are signed by Commander Byrd himself; but most of them are signed by Russell Owen, a crack reporter who distinguished himself...
...Rizzardis, aerialists extraordinary . . . Welsh & Kaplan, divertissement . . . Maybella de la Maye, operatic star . . . the Smfth Brothers & Their Eight Musical .Cough Drops . . . Frenzo, master of legerdemain . . . newsreel. Roseribergs from Queens . . . Callahans from Brooklyn . . . Schmidts from Yorkville . . . Whites from Harlem . . . Rosenbergs, Callahans, Schmidts from the Bronx...
...most recent acquisition is the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (TIME...
Paavo Nurmi, famed Finn, began his second series of U. S. runnings 'by establishing in Brooklyn three world's records as follows: 3,000 yards in 7 min, 43 and 2/5 sec.; 2,500 metres in 6:58; and one and five-eighth miles in 7:23 2/5. He made these records in the course of running 3,000 yards with a stop watch in one hand...