Word: easier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atlanta had two important matters to think about last week. One, of course, was Golfer Bobby Jones practicing at St. Andrew's, Scotland, to defend his British open championship. When Mr. Jones was reported as having ticked off a practice round in 68, Atlanta's mind was easier on this score. The other matter was the sale of the Atlanta Constitution, premier of Southern dailies. The ownership was announced as having passed from the Clark Howells, father & son, of Atlanta, to Colonel Luke Lea* and Rogers Caldwell, two Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean...
...also think it would be desirable to discuss the possibility of limiting the number of submarines according to our varying requirements, and it must be borne in mind that any limit placed on the number of submarines would make it easier to limit the number of destroyers, and if agreement were reached on these points with other powers it might be possible also to consider the number of cruisers each of us should possess...
...expenditure of nothing, in the way of effort, a year. Tired of supplying neighboring ice boxes with their heavy fuel, weary of dashing up and down mud covered gridirons, even, it seems, fatigued by the importunities of the camera man and the movie director, he has found an easier, and a more profitable method of employing his talents. He now sits comfortably at home while industrious candy dealers and phlegmatic pharmacists from the Alleghenies to the Rockies sell candy bars with the name "Red Grange" inscribed on them--sell candy bars and pay him for whom they are named...
...inches by 2? inches, therefore will be about an inch and one-half shorter and half an inch narrower. It will last longer because it will not have to be folded so much and each printing operation will produce 50% more notes. These two advantages of longer life and easier printing were expected to save the government some $2,000,000 annually. Mr. Mellon said that the reduction in size will not make obsolete money-counting machinery and cash-registers now in use and that the small size bill has been successfully used in the Philippines...
...Paris. President Gaston Dou-mergue pinned the cross of the Legion of Honor upon Captain Lindbergh, on the day of the modest remark: "It is much easier to fly from America to Europe than to fly from Europe to America...