Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goldhammer of the Commercial Cable Co., Manhattan) and U. S. Minister to Sweden Leland Harrison. ¶The President went to Cannon Falls, Minn., and delivered a dedicatory speech at a monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg in which the First Minnesota Volunteers lost 215 of their 262 men. "In all the history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals. . . . It probably saved the Union Army from defeat. We may well stop to consider on this Sabbath day what Power it was that stationed these men at this strategic...
...Akerson (secretary) ; also fishing rods, flies, the acceptance speech (for further reworking) and a batch of "crank" letters. The latter amuse the Nominee. One man begged a new set of false teeth, which reminded the Nominee of a cheerer at the Hoover reception last month in Evanston, Ill., who lost his "plate" at the height of the excitement and had to scramble for it in full view of all. To avoid ostentation and accidents, the vacation motorcade was strung out in pairs of cars or singly. The five-day itinerary was Palo Alto to Bull Flat in the Eel River...
...Products. Professor Orland Russell Sweeney, of Iowa State College, called the Corn Belt a great sponge soaking up the energy of the sun. Nowhere else in the white man's world is there another such trap for solar power. This energy is stored in chemical compounds; not lost. True to the laws of physics it is merely changed, can be released again by chemical cunning. Meanwhile, the potential energy of hundreds of millions of tons of industrial raw materials is wasted. This waste material is full of cellulose. Already cellulose is made into many an industrial product by chemists...
...Charles Burton Robbins, Assistant Secretary of War, attempted to change seats with a mechanic in a trimotored Fokker transport plane, lost his balance, was thrown to the floor of the cabin, suffered a fractured collarbone, two broken ribs. The accident occurred during a flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Washington...
...Lost: Jewel Case, pink leather; believe left in taxi, picked up at French Line pier and dismissed at Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Tuesday about noon; reward. See Cashier, Ritz-Carlton Hotel...