Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young women any generous author of light fiction should feel a lasting debt of gratitude. Very well, then, such shall be Mr. Oppenheim's heroine; her name, just plain Edith Brown...
...coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring-men's Sunday best?black cloth suits, black four-in-hand ties, un- comfortable black shoes. Let the coffins be of plain mahogany draped with Red, banked with odorous Red flowers. So it was, and their neighbors saw them as they had often seen them...
...efficiency of a radio telephone, evolved by Captain K. E. Hartley of the British Territorial Forces, for use in army tanks, was exhibited last week on Salisbury Plain, England. Any member of a tank crew could operate it. Fine tuning had been eliminated by employing low frequency waves and a powerful, seven-tube superheterodyne receiver. Padded headphones protected the listener from internal and external din. The aerial, a hollow aluminum rod ten feet high, was equipped with a spring hinge to let it fold on the tank roof going under trees or bridges, rise erect again when they were passed...
...ground whatever for them. Nobody need expect Erin to become a republic overnight. The Republicans are practically deadlocked in the Dail, for the rest of the House is overwhelmingly pro-treaty and a coalition for Mr. de Valera on the Republican issue is impossible. Thomas Johnston made that much plain last week, and his party is nearest in political complexion to the de Valera-ites...
...statement issued last week by Edsel B. Ford (president of the Ford Motor Co.), the first official announcement in many weeks of rumor. He spoke of the car as "an accomplished fact" and reported the results of the country road test, made one warm summer day over hill and plain, curve and stretch, the car had run: 27 miles the first half-hour. 56.1 miles the first hour. 110 miles in two hours...