Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...F. J. CLIFFORD...
...undertaking profession is overcrowded and the death rate is not high enough. . . . Last week in Baltimore there were only ten bodies to the divide . . . and three of these were children on whose funerals there is always a loss. . . ." So said one W. F. Guerke last week, at a convention of the Maryland State Funeral Directors Association...
...Britons. Males five feet nine inches (four inches taller than now), females five feet six or seven inches (two inches taller), skulls proportionally higher and shorter than before-these, said Professor F. G. Parsons of the anthropology division, are characteristics of the typical Britons now evolving in harmony with the conditions of modern life...
...Manhattan, mechanics last week set about installing, in a Broadway booth, ten of the latest models of a four-year-old invention of one F. E. Gray of Philadelphia. Four years ago Mr. Gray devised a new place to drop nickels- the Sodamat. From the original Soda-mat all a patron got for his nickel was an ice-cream soda or other-soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models...
Counterclockwise to the sun. a U. S. monoplane was winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...