Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Knight Shields, for ten years a United States Senator and for 65 years a Democrat, exclaimed in an interview apropos of the settling of the anthracite coal strike: "If this is a fair sample of President Coolidge's adjustment of strikes and labor troubles in the interests of the people of the United States, I hope he will not make any further efforts in that direction...
...Aurora, 111., obtained from the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan, a carload of 215 paintings and bronzes, and exhibited them for nine days at the Central States Exposition in Aurora. From other cities came other pictures and bronzes -enough to fill ten galleries in the art buildings of the Fair Ground. Manager Erwin S. Barrie of the Grand Central Galleries accompanied his shipment to Aurora. When he had sold 20 paintings and sculptures he declared the fair " an artistic camp meeting." Said he: " Aurora buys more paintings per capita than any other city in the U. S. . . . The people of Aurora...
...Story. Fair Elena, Marquise de Torre Bianca, had tawny eyes, a face quite capable of launching several thousand ships, and an insatiable taste for living de luxe. Nobody seemed to know just where she came from, but all her women friends were quite certain of her ultimate destination. So when the Marquis and she, financially ruined and forced to leave Paris on account of the collapse of a wildcat series of projects in which the Marquis had been a dummy director, arrived in the wilds of the Argentine, under the protection of engineer Robledo, a friend of the Marquis' youth...
Twenty-one and two-tent's horse power in a test of 25 feet on a cinder-surfaced road were developed by Cap and King, a pair of 10-year-old Percheron geldings, in unique pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds...
...free offers learning to all. So the great seat shortage is only one aspect of a bad situation. There arise attendant evils of double sessions, night work, overcrowding, poor lights and air, underpaid instruction, inadequate equipment. Large classes slow up the work. The dullard drags upon the child of fair promise...