Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper towers up, its facade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening." The News commented editorially: "While five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention a flock of lesser projects, the landscape is necessarily cluttered up a bit, and as a lot of the work is being done on the street TIME'S observer observed, he might very easily, being the sort of observer he is, have got the impression of ill-kemptness. . . . Greensboro...
...Argonauts, Inc., formed to back Captain Fonck, that a ship, the S-35, would be made within 10% of certain specifications. No mention was made by Captain Fonck of Hotelman Orteig's $25,000 prize money and last week, with the Sikorsky ship a-testing, the public had all but forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters...
...Tribune aimed widest, fell shortest. With invincible puerility it secured from some 24 writers-five of them widely famed-lists of "their personal choice of the immortal dozen" writers casually alluded to by Kipling. Homer and Shakespeare were well spoken of by most of the 24; though Shakespeare escaped mention by Dutch savant-to-tiny-tots Van Loon. The entire vapidity, occupying over two full columns, failed of that success in puffing the Herald Tribune's book section achieved by Mrs. Ogden Reid, able wife of its publisher, at her persistent "literary teas" to authors, publishers, publicists...
...past years, the correspondents sent to cover the Wimbledon tournament for the U. S. press have never failed to mention the women who were competing there. After a two-column story about some match in the men's singles, there would be a sentence or two mentioning a "taut white skirt" and, perhaps, tucked under one of Tilden's feet. a picture of Kitty McKane, British champion in 1924. Miss McKane is now, resolutely, Mrs. Godfree, and this year her picture was at the top of every spread. Over the shadows of Helen Wills (scratched), of Suzanne Lenglen...
Correspondents remembered to mention the men who competed in the tournament. Jean Borotra of France won the singles, sweeping past Howard Kinsey. Paired with Richards, Kinsey lost the doubles to Jacques Brugnon and Henri Coehet, champion of France, 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6. Richards played very badly. Both he and Kinsey showed a tendency, indeed, a habit, to serve double faults and to volley from the service line...