Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honors. When Captain Lindbergh arrives in the U. S., he will find Barnum-scale welcomes wherever he goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats...
...Young Turks are not at all sure that they will find a second High Commissioner Bristol in his successor, the first U. S. Ambassador to be sent to Angora-Joseph C. Grew (TIME, May 30). Ambassador Grew is no salty sailor-paladin, but a Department of State "career man," until now Under Secretary of State...
Should his critics read "The Church Nobody Knows" they would find Bruce Barton making the following points in his own prosaic but clear and modest way about those traditional strangers, Business and the Church...
...When the Son of Man cometh shall he find faith on the earth...
...world over, jumped wildly a fortnight ago. So violently did the earth tremble that many a seismograph was jarred out of commission. One of the severest shocks in years had occurred and scientists pictured one of history's worst disasters in its wake. That evening they expected to find the press full of hideous headlines-cities razed, thousands killed, islands submerged, raging fires...