Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literary Guild has selected as its choice for April "Round Up" by Ring W. Lardner. The book will be published by Charles Scribner's Sons on April 5. "Round Up" is the only collection of short stories ever presented by the Guild and it is the first by Mr. Lardner in three years...
Florenz Ziegfeld has written the preface to "Secrets of Charm", by Josephine Huddleston, which Putnam's have published this week. The book is having its premiere at the first annual National Beauty Show which is being held at Grand Central Palace. New York City, March 27 April 3, where Miss Huddleston is Official Mistress of Ceremonies for the week...
...predict that they will operate indefinitely without electrical break-down, unless the insulation is damaged by some abnormal electrical surge such as lightning strokes, or high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing grounds. With underground cables, however, the situation is entirely different. In the first place, it is not permissible to carry high-voltage lines into the centers of population because of the danger. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use underground cables. The ordinary high-voltage underground cable is insulated with paper tapes which are thoroughly dried, and then impregnated with insulating oils. This paper insulation...
...combined clubs will render Beethoven's ninth Symphony. Just prior to this number the Orchestra will play its arrangement of Beethoven's first symphony. This is the second time this season that the Glee Club will give the ninth symphony, having rendered it the first time at the Pension Fund Concert last November. The concert also marks the second time this year that the Harvard and Radcliffe Clubs have appeared together...
...tournament was marked by the appearance for the first time of a Western Conference team, Ohio State. Other entrants, besides those mentioned above, included Columbia, whose sabre team placed second, Navy, N. Y. U., Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell...