Word: lightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage ceiling is supported by a 73½ foot steel truss, the largest ever used, capable of carrying more than 11,000,000 pounds). After Conductor Giorgio Polacco has become a shadow in a bowl of shadow, his shirtfront and the tip of his nose touched with golden light from the page in front of him, the familiar strains of Aïda will begin (Rosa Raisa and Charles Marshall in the leading parts...
...broke through 200, reeled down to a closing figure of 186. All the blue chips of the late bull market were hammered and sliced-the better the stock, the bigger the break. On this day A. T. & T. fell 24 points; Columbia Carbon, 61; Consolidated Gas, 20; Electric Power & Light, 13; General Electric, 47; Eastman Kodak, 41; Otis Elevator, 60; New York Central, 22; Montgomery Ward, 15; U. S. Industrial Alcohol, 39; Standard Gas & Electric, 40, etc. etc. etc. ... In Rio de Janeiro the coffee market already frightened (TIME, Oct. 21), closed altogether. But in Chicago a bushel of wheat...
...shortly after noon. Light through the girders and from many searchlights fall on a comparatively diminutive fabric of duralumin lying at one end of the dock. The duralumin section is 50 ft. long, 10 ft. high, and just one arc of the 133-ft. diameter ring which is to be the "keel" of the airship. A rope on standards marks off the round of the ring-to-be. Within the circumference are 400 dignitaries, official guests, each with a 3-in. disk of duraluminum, memento of the "ZRS-4 Ring-Laying...
Prominent among, recent football reforms is the suggestion offered by the Brown Daily Herald of creating 150-pound varsity football teams which should represent universities along with regular elevens. The idea of light-weight football teams has its analogy in crew, where the custom has been long-standing...
...into prominence on Tuesday was once again working together and it seems to be a pretty safe bet that it will start tomorrow. Wood was at quarter, while Putnam, erstwhile signal caller, was at left half. Devens and Harper completed this backfield. There is a good possibility that Mays, light but speedy Sophomore, will start, in which case he will replace Wood and Putnam will return to his regular berth...