Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Ernest Gannett at 52 took into his family am year old child last week. The child had been looking for a father for six years. The question was considered eugenically and Mr. Gannett was chosen on his record as an honest publisher. The child is the Hartford Times and its addition brings Mr. Gannett's newspaper family to ten. Over $5,000,000, noted as the largest cash consideration ever involved in New England newspaper deals, was Mr. Gannett's price of fatherhood...
Bargains in Floor Coverings" Under the large white elephant was a paragraph: "The Reason: A white elephant is an article that has been a slow seller. . . . They are 'White Elephants' to us but they are ex- traordinary bargains to you." Readers, thinking this a frank, logical and apt explanation of a clever advertisement, patronized the sale...
Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds...
...secured while an undergraduate at the University, when he won both the 40 and 50 yard dashes. The two men who have threatened his title time and again were on hand last night to try once more for the crown as champion short distance sprinter. The runners are Frank Hussey, former Boston College track star, who has been second in most of his races with Miller. The other is a new runner in the field, Carl Wyldermuth of Georgetown University. In the 40 yard dash Hussey was second, Ernest Morrill of Boston University was third, and Watkins was fourth...
Last year's Millrose meet was a triumph for Harvard when A. H. Miller '27, premier sprinter of the Crimson squad, flashed home in front of a strong field in the 50-yeard dash. Frank Hussey, of Boston College, Robert McAllister, "the Flying Cop", and Morrill of Boston University took Miller's dust in this race...