Word: lengths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outline at some length the Capital Building Program at Washington and . . . say "Within the so-called Triangle will then be erected seven huge Federal buildings of white marble...
...mortally wounded!" So cried a voice to the Paterson, N. J., radio audience. Frantic telephone calls for confirmation of this News were made to National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WJZ. Last week the company started a search for the amateur radio-news-faker who used the WJZ wave length and call letters to broadcast such gruesome "humor...
They were very slow. The rain took no notice and kept pouring down. At length Mr. Mellon, still bent over with trowel poised, said patiently: ''Please hurry, won't you? You know, I'm not laying the whole building...
...Composed of a series of simple quatrains, the song has been altered and elaborated by so many artists, including John Barleycorn, that no one person can ever have heard or imagined all its verses. Yet the basic story has simple, tragic dignity which does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie loved Nellie Bly. So Frankie shot her man. "He was her man, but he done her wrong," explains every refrain. The verse at which singers usually break down in tears goes...
...Junior class crew, which also rowed, kept pace with the two leading crews for the first quarter mile, but gradually dropped behind after that point. The lightweights continued to keep the half length's lead over the third University crew which they had taken early in the race, responding to every attempt the latter made to pass. At the bend in the river by the Weeks bridge the leading crew increased its margin, but dropped back again when it had the outside on the next bend. At the finish it was almost a dozen feet behind the hand-pressing third...