Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near Cincinnati lately, on the estate of Julius Fleischmann Jr., a Mrs. Rockefeller tried trapshooting for the first time. She was surprised and pleased to see one "bird" after another disintegrate as fast and often as she pulled trigger. Those present kept it a secret from Mrs. Rockefeller that behind her while she was shooting stood a crack shot who, each time she cried, "Pull," took aim at the sailing pigeons, waited, shot when she did. Not even persons long used to shooting shotguns can detect by ear the shooting of another shotgun almost simultaneously with their...
...night fell, the Nominee appeared before the multitude. "This," he said, with some emotion, "is a home-coming." He talked about his and their pioneer ancestors; about his first schoolteacher, Mrs. Molly Brown Carran, who was present, gazing up through thick-lensed eyeglasses at her prodigious pupil. He recalled Iowa's apples, rabbits, nuts, fishing. He returned again to the Old Swimming Hole: "As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole," he said. "But I doubt if the decrease in mothers' grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting...
Wisconsin approached its Republican gubernatorial primary in a trilemma. The factors of an oldtime dilemma were there -La Follettism v. Regularity-Candidate Joseph David Beck v. Fred R. Zimmerman, the present Governor. To these a third candidate had added himself, Candidate Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., and Kohler Plumbing. A fourth man, John Ferris, was also running...
...French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, granting him inspirational credit in the authorship of the treaty. Twenty-five minutes later Mr. Kellogg was in a train which rattled into the Gare St.-Lazare, Paris, 45 minutes ahead of schedule, to the discomfiture of newsmen, of whom only one, forlorn, was present. U. S. Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick, prominent welcomer, arrived at the station late...
...present O'Grady system, called Natural Color, uses a revolving shutter attachable to any standard size movie camera. The shutter contains a circle of gelatin sheets tinted to allow the seven primary colors† to pass through. As each section or "frame" of the film pauses its swift fraction of a second behind the camera lens** it receives the impression of a single color. Only those parts of the scene that are blue will be photographed through the blue screen; only the yellow scene parts through the yellow screen; etc. The next frame gets another color impression...