Word: meters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of changes which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch collar becoming 405 millimeters...
...free verse the remark went, 'is no more a new form of poetry than sleeping in a ditch is a new form of architecture.' I think there is perhaps a great deal in that. In my own work I am inclined to adhere more to the conventional forms of meter and rhyme. I am proud to say that I am not one of those who thinks Tennyson beneath contempt or is bored at mention of the nineteenth century tury...
...Aristotle, The Green Fan, Erasmus Scroggs, Browning J. A. V., Lionel Lee, Yan, Albert Seewald, George O. N., Jonson and Boswell, The Nobles, Me, Alfred A. Lunt, John M. Hanoe, Osiris, Wireless Willy, The Skipper, Mayfair, O. Henry (single applicant), Bel Enfant, Alfred Augustus Baker, Los Vaqueros, Watt Hour Meter, Caesar, John X. Stevenson, Jaina Square, Mr. Micawber, The Triple Threat, Charles Hawkins, Barnacle, Edward I. A. Stockton Lansdowne, Unus, G. Havaheart, Folly of 1927, Little Applesauce, Ichabod Crane, M. Sans Souci, General Cord, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford
Sleeked with sandpaper and rubbed down until not so much as a varnish blister marred its swift stream lines, a U. S. seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the timing instruments. Officials figured for a moment-announced that Lieut. Jame Doolittle had covered the course at an average speed of 232,573 miles per hour, which was 43,753 miles an hour faster than the previous (unofficial) world record for seaplanes set at Bayshore a year...
...Y.M.C.A. planned to receive 4,500 sailors on shore every day, provided 1,500 beds and continuous meals. The newspapers published "Home News for the Fleet"?items wirelessed from KDKA (Pittsburgh) on a 63-meter wavelength, by arrangement with The Melbourne Herald, secured through the U.S. representative of La Nacion (Buenos Aires). Every evening at 6 p. m. the items are flashed from Pittsburgh and are received in Melbourne at 8 a. m. almost instantaneously, but by calendar a day later...