Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liver Oil in small doses is more salutary than in massive doses, which may even be harmful. Pure cod liver oil is better than emulsions. Irradiating oil with ultraviolet light helps its effect.?Sweden's Erik Agduhr...
...phrase was "dew wife." It came to light in Manhattan's Chinatown, in a subtle feud between two newspapers, the Chinese Nationalist Daily News and the Chinese Journal. The feud was aggravated some months ago when the Nationalist flayed the Journal for publishing advertisements of Japanese goods. The Journal, edited by Communist Thomas P. Chan, replied by flaying the Nationalist for disrupting a Communist Chinatown meeting with well-aimed, overripe bananas and large juicy watermelons. Aggravation was not due merely to criticism of the raid, of which the Nationalist was most proud. But the Journal editorial referred...
Intensity of light in Kansas City, Kan., dance halls must be one candle-foot (one candle's light a foot from the flame) at a plane three feet above the floor...
...ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route because her license had expired. She continued. Winner was Mrs. Thaden, with a Travel Air in 20½ hrs. flying time. Winner in the light plane division was Mrs. Omlie, with a Monocoupeaon...
...stamp stories, spoke familiarly of "Luzons" (Philippine issue), "Bull's-eyes" (elliptically shaped Brazilian issue), compared albums. Seldom in the history of Minneapolis have there been so many pairs of tweezers in town. Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks...