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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early as 1864 by a now forgotten Frenchman named Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron. In terms of pure theory he set down accurately at great length what ought to be done to make motion pictures. In the early 1890"s the supremely practical tinkering of Edison produced a peep-show device into which one spectator could look at pictures which moved while an Edison phonograph talked. The Brothers Lumière produced at about the same...
...proudly past, they marked the climax of a ceremony which drew notables from miles around. Immediate reason for the celebration was that workmen had just finished 28 miles of new concrete road. More significant: Nebraska at last had a paved road running from one end of its 460-mi. length to the other. Most significant: The last link in the Lincoln Highway had been completed, giving the U. S. its first transcontinental hard-surfaced road. Now known as "U. S. Route 30" most of the way from Atlantic City to Oakland, the Lincoln Highway was conceived by Promoter Carl Fisher...
...brought to a close yesterday with a pair of races over the three-quarter mile course in the Basin both of which were dominated by the Freshmen. In the initial race the first Freshman outrowed the first Varsity and led them across the line by more than half a length while the second Varsity boat was bringing up the rear...
Next came a third shibboleth, the Inevitability of whatever His Majesty's Government have decided to do, and this Prime Minister Baldwin set forth at length...
...that time, Dr. Silpher saw a projection, 300 miles in length, the highest point of which extended upwards into the atmosphere some 17 miles. The body was tawny in color. That a cloud could rise so high in such a rarified atmosphere seemed unlikely. The explanation for it was that it was probably a cloud of dust swept from the arid regions of the temperate zone. Recent dust clouds in the middle west of America have reached vastly larger proportions...