Word: parently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover Cabinet was picked, it was reported, but would not be announced until a few weeks before inauguration.*Those weeks will be spent by the President-Elect on Belle Isle, off Miami Beach, Fla., in the mansion of James C. Penney, chainstore man, intimate friend. A proud parent, the city of Miami proper last week invited Calvin Coolidge to come there too, to stay permanently...
Perceiving the timeliness of working with the Better Element, the Thompsonian school superintendent, William J. Bogan, made a belated effort to close various "ice cream parlors" which sell gin & sundries to high school minors. He suggested that members of the Parent-Teacher association become "vigilantes...
...finds it pleasing, then, to discover Harvard's own representative in the act of regaining some of the unique distinction...time...is held to have been filtered away, and that in the sister--or parent--university, which two years ago sent its debaters to the American Cambridge. Mr. Eliot showed that the foundation belief in international good will which underlies the systems of foreign studentships is not a fallacy. The hope of explaining Nicaraguan excursions, Philippines uprisings, Armistice Day speeches, was slight almost to despair, but the explanation is made, and satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious...
...long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal moraines of old glaciers, geologists figure that they were scuffed out of a parent field somewhere south or southwest of James Bay, the teat-like extension of Hudson Bay. That field has not yet been located...
...change sound waves to light waves, and reproduction reverses the process. Warner Bros, vitaphone uses phonographic discs for sound accompaniment with its pictures. Vitaphone and movietone had close tie-ups with cinema producing, distributing and exhibiting companies (TIME, July 9). Photophone did not. R. C. A., photophone's parent corporation, sought such...