Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Police, last week, is the great "General Lord Byng of Vimy Ridge," or, less colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...
...state of affairs was stigmatized as "intolerable!" by peppery Baron Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer of Messines and of Bilton, who has been British High Commissioner to Palestine since 1925. He prescribed a remedy: more British troops. He had tested his prescriptions in 1918-19, when, with the rank of Field Marshal, he commanded the Second British Army occupying the German Rhineland. Methods which reduced Germans to submission ought to be good for Arabs...
...Holders Ferrarin and Delprete, however, he could not refuse permission to attempt the long and difficult flight from the mainland of Europe to South America. Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine had set the airline distance record at 3,911 miles with their flight from Roosevelt Field (N. Y.) to Eisleben, Germany. The distance from Rome to Brazil, by any calculation, is over 4,000 miles. Ferrarin and Delprete took off from Monticelio Flying Field, Rome, last week, in the same single-motored Savoia-Marchetti which had weathered the endurance test...
...conclusions were drawn from the Olympic track and field trials at Cambridge, Mass.: 1) the U. S. team is of sufficient strength to outscore its opponents in the Olympics; 2) many of the ablest performers on the team have their homes in California...
Magazines. In the field of trade journals, where editorial problems are simple, profits great, was a merger: A. W. Shaw Co. (Magazine of Business, System) and McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Inc. (Electrical World, Coal Age, Radio Retailing, Bus Transportation, and many another...