Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wife of Clergyman Ernest Van Rensselaer Stires and daughter-in-law of the Episcopal Bishop of Long Island...
...ornithology. From the balcony Harold Lester Madison, acting director of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History, is getting data on the birds which migrate across the district and on the relation of atmospheric conditions to the height to which birds fly. But such usefulness cannot last very long, because birds somehow learn to avoid man-built obstacles...
...sending antennae keep the waves from spraying sideways, but not from up-&-down. It is not properly a beam at all. It is a very narrow sheet of short waves that go around the earth like a ruff. They suffer the same troubles, in less degree, that the diffuse long waves...
...Meresankh III, who grew up to be a small, black-haired woman. Hetep-Heres II also outlived and buried her daughter. It was Meresankh Ill's tomb that Dr. Reisner's party recently discovered. Pictures and inscriptions therein related the family's affairs and filled a long gap in Egypt's dynastic history...
...stock dividend. Why? Perhaps too many shares for the pools to handle. General Electric gains 83½ points, keeps them. . . . Railroads are strong, may become market leaders when coppers and oils yield. Friday's turnover: 4,999,140 shares. . . . Three days: 14,931,140. Weary brokers long for Saturday noon. At length, it comes. Montgomery Ward passes the 400 mark ... a new half-day record with 3,260,000 shares. . . . Sunday is quiet all right; the exchange is closed. . . " Monday is a record for all time; 5,917,000 shares change hands; the general trend is upward; Radio jumps...