Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME goes to press Tuesday, includes important Tuesday news. Three days later, most of its 220,000 weekly copies have reached subscribers. No magazine can compare with TIME in the matter of speed. However, no one is lying. TIME is the first, the only newsmagazine...
...Eskimo saw a smoke signal across the fjord near Mount Evans, Greenland. Two men went out in a motor boat to investigate. With a flashlight they signaled back: "Hassell safe." Two minutes later the New York Times received the news by wireless. It was one of the fastest handled and most complete scoops in the history of journalism...
Capt. Amundsen set out on June 18 to rescue Gen. Umberto Nobile, Italian Polar Pilgrim, whom he thoroughly detested. Gen. Nobile, saved by others, was reported last week at Milan and later at Rome to be suffering a high fever...
Hugo Stinnes, son of the late Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, was arrested and jailed last week in Berlin, charged with attempting to defraud the German Government. His secretary, also arrested but later released, accused him of wanting to sell falsely registered war bonds...
...trans-Atlantic wireless telephone to Manchester, Mass., when Anne Pullen Dennett, a friend's daughter, was being married. Her parents, prudent, employed John Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, to play Mendelssohn's march right at the wedding, clearly and on time. Later the Schelling performance crackled from a loud speaker...