Word: canse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning your statement [TIME, Dec. 9] re Carnegie that she did not carry one ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard of her I may draw your attention to the fact that although it was possible to construct the ship out of nonmagnetic material it yet was not...
The fire department had ordered installation of automatic sprinklers in the studio which Pathe officials resisted on the claim that no more than five inflammable film reels (the legal limit) were stored there. In the fire ruins Police Commissioner Whalen dramatically counted out 150 blistered cans of film reels.
Toward daybreak the gunmen took a grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of...
Seven Faces (Fox). As a short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He...
In many cases he is not only a director in name but also in active fact. Thus, of Continental Can he is chairman of the executive committee, besides being its most famed student of economics. To add the problems of bottles to the problems of cans will be, for him...