Word: lengths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Question above was asked by Utah's Democratic Senator King. The Answer was given by John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering...
Chaplin. A German film company made a full-length feature film called Adventures by skilfully joining three famed Chaplin comedies, In a Pawn Shop, The Immigrant and Easy Street. For four weeks the silly, $100-a-week Chaplin, 12 to 14 years younger than the present grey-haired Millionaire Chaplin, played to full houses in the Alhambra, biggest cinema house in Berlin...
Author Proust has been called a human microscope. He called himself a human telescope, prying into people's hidden motives for general psychological laws. Also he is notable as a writer of varied but disconcerting style, due to the extreme length of some of his sentences. To enjoy Proust is to be impressively bookish. Accordingly, Proust is a favorite among poseurs as well as purists...
...somewhat, but freaks of tone were still audible to a sensitive ear. Evidently the problem was scientific, beyond a musician's province. Conductor Fiedler might have abandoned the shell and tried electric amplification. But this method, with its rasps and harsh distortions, does not please true musicians. At length he consulted Dr. W. R. Barss, professor of acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Last year, Federal Radio Commission, arbiter in all wireless controversies, thought it had solved a problem. Confronted by many a press demand for the few remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to transmit news. Under the American Publishers Committee, a number of public utility corporations were to be formed to handle wireless press matter. But the problem was not solved, the Commission soon discovered. Loud were the cries of newspapers and news services charging unequal allotment, curtailment of their radio press facilities...