Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three longest suspension bridges existing at present are: 1) the bridge at Philadelphia reaching across the Delaware, with a span of 1,750 ft.; 2) the Peekskill (Bear Mountain) bridge over the Hudson-1,632 ft.; 3) the Williamsburg bridge over the East River-1,600 ft. The new bridge is to be 3,192 ft.-twice the length of the Brooklyn Bridge...
Wives, mothers, sisters, etc., of the funmakers, organized a feminine club called Quarante Femmes ?Huit Chapeaux (40 women?8 hats), with a Mrs. Walter Davol of East Providence, R. I., for "National Chapeau...
Erect and martial, President Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg arrived at Tannenberg, East Prussia, there to unveil a War memorial to the soldiers who fell in the historic Battle of Tannenberg...
...Instructed by me to free East Prussia from the enemy, your and General von Ludendorff's superior leadership, supported by the devoted cooperation of your subordinates, who were most of them trained in the school of my old chief of the general staff, Count Schlieffen, succeeded in gaining a splendid victory with our incomparable and brave troops...
Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith opened the Fair with a speech broadcast to radio audiences all over the East. He received a picture of himself sent by A. D. Cooley's new photo-radio system. The picture was converted into sound waves; the sound waves were recorded on a dictaphone and "played" for radio audiences. Said the Governor: "The changing intensity of the sound corresponds to the shading of the picture. I guess that loud part is my nose. Now you know what it sounds like to look at my face." The National Association of Broadcasters, assembled at the Fair...