Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, of gratitude. From English technologists he received the information needed to perfect his first photographic films. The present head of the Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories is Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, English-born, London-educated...
...first assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland was held in a garage containing some 12,000 chairs. While rain beat upon the roof the position of moderator of the reunited church was voted to Rev. John White, minister of the Barony of Glasgow...
Also last week Dr. Fosdick held informal dedication of the finished part of the Riverside Church. First in the opening program was a 65? supper, cooked in the church's large kitchen, served in the gymnasium to 500 church members...
...some detail, the editor explained how "Tough Luck" was acquired. It had been sold to Liberty, he said, through one T. Everett Harre, literary agent and "ghost writer," for $750.* For proof he displayed the original manuscript which bore the signature of Miss Oelrichs on its first and last pages. "Harré paid Miss Oelrichs for the article, giving her his personal check for $200," Mr. Annenberg said. "It assigns for that amount all rights in the article." Sighed Mr. Harre: "It's a tough business, this ghost-writing...
...first (1906) race Frank P. Lahm, also an American, covered 402 miles. Longest race distance was France's Maurice Bienaime's 1,354 miles...