Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Come across now TIME, and admit that for once you are wrong...
Enclosed is my book plate which you will feel free to use as you think wise, and publish if you think it has sufficient news value. It shows the scene that greets my eyes each morning as I come across the Bay from my home at Mosman into the gates of the City, i. c., Circular Quay. This is the first view of Sydney seen by every visiting American. I would be happy to send one of these book plates to every helper who cares to cooperate...
Last week, two months had passed since the new occupants took over the White House. Observers looking to see what changes, if any, might have come over the White House, noticed that the bronze-bound doors were swinging to and fro with a brisk new freedom. They opened not only in for strangers (see col. 1) but also out for plain tourists to issue grandly forth from the main entrance after staring their way through state chambers. The tourist exit always used to be through the basement. The Open Door policy is the most tangible change which Mrs. Hoover...
...Treat Baldwin Johnson told of studies in the causes of cell growth being made at Yale. Two discoveries have so far come of this research: that in living matter the only substances sensitive to light are sugars?fats, oils and proteins are all unaffected by it; that one of the symptoms of tuberculosis is the appearance in the body of a certain fatty acid?a discovery which should enable the disease to be detected in its very early stages...
...sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then the Zeppelin flew to Graz and returned home via Vienna and Salzburg, completing the trip in 13½-hrs. For the Graf Zeppelin's next trip, May 15, to New York, passenger fare was fixed at $1,200; postage for a letter, $1.05; for a postcard, 55?...