Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London despatches quoted Dr. S. Parkes Cadman as saying in St. Martin's Church, London: ". . . As for fundamentalism, I read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh." Substituting "like" for "as" as a conjunction is a provincialism deprecated in good grammatical usage...
...phenomenon now about 50 years old. It began with "Pastor" Charles Taze Russell who organized the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in Pennsylvania to spread his interpretations of the Old & New Testaments. Moving to Manhattan he incorporated the People's Pulpit Association for the same purpose. Later, in London, the International
...Marconi Co. of London last week announced a new creation by Captain Round, one of its engineer-employes. It was a benefit to blindness?a process by which a full-length novel can be recorded on six double-faced, twelve-inch phonograph records. Each record "reads aloud" some 5,000 words, lasting 40 minutes. The blind audience can "turn back" should it drop off to sleep during a dull chapter, or should the reading go too swiftly during a delectable passage...
...thought, the very thought, of a woman on board, Mate Mortimer ground his teeth. A woman was not merely unlucky but against all sea tradition. If Captain Lawry did not know that then he ought to read Jack London and learn something...
...University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"); at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...