Word: lightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...
...London show is remarkable for its great number of light planes. The transport and military planes there seem entered only as samples of what is being accomplished in aviation. The small planes are dressed up to stimulate sales. Many are being bought at sight. The Exhibition is a sales opportunity which U. S. manufacturers seem to have foregone. The only U. S. plane on show was a trimotored Ford...
...Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record for the same course was 5 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes. On her second day out the Bremen jauntily crossed the imaginary goal line of a 700-mile day with a clean four miles...
...everyone knows, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's most famed magazines concern themselves with "confessions" of sex-conscious girls who go wrong, see the light, reform. They are: True Story, True Experiences, True Romances, Dream World. To comply with postal laws, intimate sex details are usually represented by three asterisks...
Tommy Loughran, world's light- heavyweight boxing champion, training in Hoosick Falls, N. Y. for a bout with James J. Braddock, swam 100 yards (out and back) to rescue one Herta Ehmler who, plucking water lilies, had fallen out of her boat into Fairy Manor Lake...