Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole career and promotion to Foreign Secretary was based, is now no more. Said the Foreign Secretary sonorously: "His Majesty's Government, after mature consideration on advice which I, as Foreign Secretary, thought it my duty to give them, have come to the conclusion that there is no longer any utility in continuing these measures [Sanctions] against Italy...
...tolls that the cost is "about the same." Famed Hector Charles Bywater, usually considered the journalistic mouthpiece of the British Admiralty, came out with the great discovery, which would have been dismissed a short time ago as nonsense, that via the Cape of Good Hope it is only 10% longer to Melbourne, Australia than via Suez; only 37% longer to Hong Kong; 44% longer to Singapore; 51% longer to Calcutta; and a mere 77% longer to the "Gateway of India," Bombay. That His Majesty's subjects should be invited by Hector Bywater thus to rearrange the contents of their...
...hand at commercial transports. The experimental DCi, slightly improved and renamed DC-2, was the result. Last week, the much-heralded DC-3 (also known as DST, for Douglas Sleeper Transport) finally made its debut. Almost identical with the DC2 in lines, it is 4-ft. longer, much fatter, seats 24 or sleeps 16. The largest landplane in the U. S., it cruises at 200 m.p.h., costs no more to run than the DC-2. At $105,000 apiece, ten have been ordered by United Air Lines, 20 by American Airlines. American got the first three, scheduled them...
Died. Montague Rhodes James, 73, British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler...
Chief significance of Dr. Machen's new Church, which will probably not subtract more than a few thousand members from the parent organization, is that it liquidates him as ecclesiastical news. He can no longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...