Word: current
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major added that his charge is not expected to resume his post at the Foreign Office for "several months." Rumors are current in London that H. R. H. combats insomnia with white powders, one school of rumor holding that they are ordinary sleeping powders...
...hands of receivers (Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., appointed by Judge Alfred C. Coxe). The petitioners were W. D. Byrnes, Inc., a Manhattan trucking concern, who in presenting a bill for $7,000, declared that the company's property was valued at $3,689,000. that its current and unpaid liabilities were $1,200,000, that its property assets could not be immediately realized without great sacrifice...
...laymen a gridiron evening constitutes a stiff examination in political current events. For professional politicians it is a trying game like "Truth." Last week President Hoover good naturedly watched his "Commission-a-Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could...
This year Professor Hurlbut was giving two courses, English 31 and English 7, the former a course in advanced English composition, and the latter on early eighteenth century English authors. He had been granted sabbatical leave for the second half of the current year...
Aided by 51 newspapers throughout the land, Cineman Carl Laemmle's Universal Newsreel daily flashes current events before the eyes of ten million cinemagoers in 10,000 theatres. Last week Newsreeler Laemmle enlisted more aid. To replace the explanatory captions in his newsreels he contracted to have the explanations spoken by a voice already familiar to his customers, the radio baritone of Graham McNamee, broadcaster extraordinary. A new title was invented for the occasion: Talking Reporter...