Word: lima
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Piping Rock Club, Locust Valley, L. I., the British Polo Team and Lord Renfrew were dined. Toasts were drunk to President Coolidge, King George and the Prince of Wales (Lord Renfrew). The company ate: Cantaloupe, Lobster ŕ la Newburg, Squab Chicken Grille, Green Corn Sauté, Lima Beans, Broiled Tomatoes, Hot Virginia Ham, Apples and Celery Salad, Crackers and Cheese, Vanilla Ice Cream, Sliced Peaches, Coffee. Dinner over, Will Rogers made the Prince's sides ache for 20 minutes with an entertaining monologue. After that, Lord Renfrew left the party "to dance somewhere...
...Lima, Peru, Nov. 16, third Pan-American Scientific Congress. Also, a Pan-American Congress on Standardization, purposing to unify engineering standards for all countries in the Western Hemisphere...
...Manhattan, ten University of Michigan undergraduates strode up a Grace Line gangplank, bound for Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, La Paz, Iquique, Antofagasta. Bidden guests of most of the South American Republics, the ten were escorted by two members of their alma mater's Romance Language staff. They bore with them to South American universities the good-will of Marion L. Burton, Michigan's Coolidge-nominating President. In addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading...
...story runs in this wise. A year ago the Archbishop of Lima, Peru, made proclamation: "We announce a great event which will be a source of much joy to all our people. The Republic of Peru, Catholic by conviction, by tradition, and by the constitution, will be officially consecrated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus next month, and the image of this most sacred heart will be enthroned in the principal plaza of the capital...
...Coffin, President of the Lima Locomotive Corporation, builders of steam locomotives, said: "It is well known that a very heavy current can be put through an electric motor for a short time and tremendous power secured, but if this current is continued for any length of time, the motor is burned up. Steam locomotives, on the other hand, can exert maximum power indefinitely." If the tug-of-war had been of one day's duration, added President Coffin, "several electric locomo-tives" would have been required to stop the steam locomotive...