Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cities the device is to be used only until all the community's telephones are changed to mechanical dialed ones. But for long distance use the machines are to be used until something even more efficient can be devised to help out the girl operators...
...Africa, telegraph linesmen, long mystified by the destruction of wires over the veldt, discovered that languid giraffes use them for head rests...
...sacrifices his kingdom to wander up and down the land in search of her, in which occupation he grows old. In the end he marries the witch, is rejuvenated, dies. To his publisher Robert M. McBride. Mr. Cabell dedicates "this brief and somewhat tragic tale, to commemorate our long and rather comical association...
...neophyte panting to remake the newspaper world was Editor Weitzenkorn. At 16, as a cub reporter on the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times-Leader, he had begun a long journalistic stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...
From Ohio over the stormy Alleghenies to the District of Columbia, then to Long Island, a heavy trimotored Ford plane flew last week. Except at take-offs and landings the pilot scarcely ever touched the controls. A new device, a gyroscopic stabilizer similar to the stabilizers which help keep ships from rolling, kept the Ford on even keel through wind and fog. When gusts twisted the plane from its course, the stabilizer returned it automatically...