Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon after the authority spoke, the Vought aircraft factory in Long Island City, N. Y., was roaring and rattling by day and night to produce Vought Corsair bombing planes for the Mexican federals. How many, Planebuilder Chance Vought refused to admit, on the grounds that it was "military information...
...address to the Diplomatic Corps last week thus: "I, like Peter, give you all I have-my blessing." His Holiness had just received official congratulations from the diplomats upon the resumption of temporal power by the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 18). These expressions of official courtesy were thus long delayed because of the reluctance of many governments to offer them at all. None were forthcoming from Japan, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway or The Netherlands. And the French Ambassador Caron de Beaumarchais, who offered the congratulations of his government several weeks ago without authority received a wigging last week from French...
...Paul, Minn., next May the General Assembly must either ratify or veto this direct departure from Saint Paul who said "Let your women keep silence. ..." The Women. The chief Lydia Pankhursts of the Presbyterian church are two, Mrs. Fred Smith Bennett and Miss Margaret E. Hodge. Mrs. Bennett has long been a cheerful gracious opponent of "silly conventions" and she has long presided over the Presbyterian Council of Women. "Why," she asks, "do women think they must wash on Mondays? In the same way why are people prejudiced against the equality of women in the church since they have...
...announced last week, through Chairman Edward Kimball Hall, that a new apparatus will be used in future to measure pigskins put in play. The correct football will have "a circumference of its short axis from 22 to 22½ inches (a half inch less than last year), length of long axis from 11 to 11½ inches, entire surface to be convex, and inflated not more than 15 pounds, nor less than 13 pounds...
...Sunday morning late in January, six men bent upon a secret errand slipped into the empty, silent offices of Cosmopolitan Magazine in Manhattan. Doors were locked, keys turned. Thus barricaded against intrusion, Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan sat down with five excited assistants to examine the "dummy" of their April number. The first thing they did was tear out the leading article. It was to be replaced by another article, a mystery article that commanded precedence. Plans were cunningly laid, and when Editor Ray Long entrained for California that night he felt that the secret was left behind...