Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea has persisted for a long time that among nations, as in families, there are younger and older brothers. One deduces from this idea that the function of acting as tutor, at least in spiritual matters and many times in matters of policing, is exercised by the older brothers with the supposed younger brothers...
Last year Herbert Clark Hoover as Secretary of Commerce and William M. Jardine as Secretary of Agriculture asked Dr. George McCullough Rommel, agricultural consultant long associated with the Department of Agriculture, to study the possibilities of farmers earning money from their traditional wastes. Dr. Rommel, of course, knew that since 1765 men have known how to prepare paper from corn stalks. But such corn paper has always been more expensive than wood pulp paper. Wallboard may also be made from the stalks. His problem, and he is succeeding in it, has been to get dubious corn paper and wallboard makers...
...telephotograph† station; the jiggly light streak transmuted to electrical impulses and sent across country to Manhattan where they were changed back to a streaked film; and that film prepared and inserted into the Alias Jimmy Valentine picture. Conceivably, but not yet practicably, Actor Haines might have spoken over long distance to Manhattan, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saved several steps in picturing his voice...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore...
...wait was not long, and in the midst of mourning an insignificant German princess became empress of all the Russias. Her mother-in-law, Marie Feo-dorovna, beloved of the people, was so steeped in sorrow that she paid very little attention to Alexandra; but the various grand duchesses took pains to make her difficult position yet more difficult with their resentful jealousies. Bashful, awkward, guileless, Alix, now Alexandra Feo-dorovna, disdained the gentle art of flummery, and was only took frank in her disapproval of Russian frivolity...