Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looming "small navy" filibuster was abandoned but the "small navy" men declared they would fight to reduce the number of cruisers, to eliminate the time clause which provides that five cruisers a year be laid down annually for the next three years...
Seven years ago the smart and sprightly Russian Bat flapped over U. S. cities with tempestuous and most merited éclat. As each number was introduced by the droll, Cheshire-cat-faced Nikita Balieff, an ticipant audiences rocked with a foretaste of merriment which always followed. The music of the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" penetrated every stratum of U. S. society. Not to have seen the "Wooden Soldiers" or "Katinka" or later "Katerina" was the height of rusticity or indifference...
...exuberant, explosive, punctuated by the hearty (not dainty) shrieks of pretty feminine performers. Lastly, there was a transcendent originality. Two years ago, even one year ago, this magic quality lingered on. Last week, however, it was seen to have finally evaporated, a fault all the more glaring because every number in the present program is new, in the sense of not having been shown before...
...animal's appetite usually increases with the time it has gone without food. But there seems to be an increasing number of human animals who do not develop an appetite even when undernourished. Professor Anton Julius Carlson, physiologist of the University of Chicago, has found out this animal anomaly and stated so to Chicago dietitians last week. It may explain why office clerks, shoppers, draymen and school children seem to be increasingly satisfied with a sandwich-and-milkshake lunch at the widespreading U. S. "sandwich bars...
...Fuad. At the same time his Manhattan office through Thomas M. Debe voise, collector of pro-Rockefeller proxies, announced,. "We now feel confident of having enough proxies. We shall continue bending our energies to obtain many more stockholders for our side, for we are anxious to lead in the number of voters as well as in the volume of share-holders...