Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted the Cannon platform in which Prohibition was called "the high-water mark of civilization." All resources were pledged to up-to-the-hilt enforcement...
...ever before run so long without stopping. Last week, however, two Roosevelt stock sedans drove ground and round the Indianapolis motor speedway without stopping, reached, then far passed the airplane record. One stopped after 231 hrs. and 41 min. The other passed the 300 hour mark, kept going. Drivers (who worked in shifts) included Aviators Kelly and Robbins, who thus helped to break on land the record they had made...
...held last week at famed Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, on the call of President Hoover (TIME, June 10). Three hundred delegates attended. From eleven oil-producing States came Governors or their representatives. The U. S. was there in the persons of Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur and Mark Lawrence Requa, the meeting's chairman and the President's special representative. Nine billion dollars of the eleven-billion-dollar U.S. oil industry were actively represented. For three days the delegates wrestled with oil, deplored its waste, bewailed overproduction, hoped for improvement, disbanded without definite accomplishment...
William A. Grew is the playwright who prepared this gallimaufry of old notions. The ancient, familiar ingredients are many in number, confused in arrangement. The Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful...
...charge is created in proportion to the ray's intensity. This charge is accumulated in a condenser until a given potential is set up. Then the condenser discharges and, in the Rentschler meter, makes an argon tube give out a bluish flash and simultaneously causes a pencil to mark the occurrence on a chart. The time between the flashes and the tracings on the chart measures the strength of the ultraviolet rays...