Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram in which men and forces are placed (note the term) in right relationships to one another. Time-thinking immediately asks-how long will these men and forces stay where you have placed them, how long will the relationship last? For while everybody exists in space, nobody lives in space." To our TIME-thinking magazine-a long life and a merry one. LESTER LEAKE RILEY Douglaston...
Walter Johnson, longtime pitcher and now manager of the Washington team, entered the President's box, handed him a shiny white baseball. President Hoover stood up, held a pitching pose long enough for cameramen to get the picture, then hurled the ball high and far to Umpire George Moriarty...
...maturity. This was not the only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made out of it. Somehow the stretched narrative had to be delayed long enough to make it vocal. The best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin...
...John Harvard" and "Veritas" are sister ships, 20 feet long, with a five foot beam, and costing $3600 each. They will be used for coaching on week days, the larger boats being reserved for following races in the Basin. The addition of these two Greenport boats brings the Harvard coaching feet to a total of eight launches...
...grieves him to confess that he is forced to admit a flaw in his greatness. For Boswell repots him to have maintained that the weather had no effect whatsoever upon the human disposition and to have scorned the weakness of his biographer who admitted to depression during long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those of his readers who admit to a similar weakness...