Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very much "upstate," just south of Albany. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a fifth cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt and he married Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He is, conspicuously, the man that Theodore Roosevelt the younger never became. Tall, with a chiselled countenance, blue eyes, curling light hair, he has exercised a vigorous public spirit ever since, as editor of the Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing law for a while in Manhattan. President Wilson made him Assistant...
...nothing to do with lifting the ship, that being the work of the hydrogen gas. and is not, as is commonly supposed, a new and mysterious discovery. The same gas, known as Pintsch gas, has been used in a less pure form to light railroad cars and farmers' stoves in this country for a decade. Herman Blau of Augsburg, Germany, simply refined upon the initial work of his friend Julius Pintsch and gave his name to the product...
Beside their captain, in the guard positions, will probably be Blackwood and Shuler, men of tried ability. Both are light and fast, the type of guard that can lead interference well and fits in perfectly with the Rockne notion of football. Blackwood was a star lineman on the 1927 first-year outfit and has superseded Donahue an experienced letterman in the scramble for honors this fall. Shuler, on the other hand, is playing in his last year of competition; he has been a bulwark of strength on two preceding North Carolina elevens and Coach Collins can feel sure that...
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Street car operators and manufacturers of their equipment, who were holding their yearly convention in Cleveland last week, were delighted with the words of their chief speaker-Owen D. Young, lawyer Chairman of the General Electric Co. His company sells service to electric power & light companies, which in turn sell current to street railways...