Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pending the full blaze of the Golden Jubilee, retrospective minds returned to years between the first spark of Edisonian genius and the visible glow of its social application. Between laboratory and layman stand innumerable middlemen, not the least important of whom are usually a few bankers. Inventor Edison at 35...
After their ritualistic chores were done for last Sunday, Manhattan's Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning and Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick proceeded that evening to the former's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There theocrat and minister watched 2,000 trained nurses march up the aisle and...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard...
Along a Maine island's rocky, windswept shore briskly stepped a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert. When he arrived at a white, two-story, shingled house, surrounded by towering trees, thick shrubs, he turned in at its gate. North Haven townsfolk had told him this was the summer...
Only 39 years old, and reputed several times a millionaire, Airman Fokker is a stout, stocky, blue-eyed typical Hollander. His motto is "I do it myself." It is said that he gives every Fokker plane its experimental flight. Fokker stock has gone from 20 to 67 in the last...