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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seconds was made in 1896 by B. J. Wefers of Georgetown. Only two men, R. C. Craig of Michigan, and D. F. Lippincott of the University of Pennsylvania, have succeeded in equalling this record in the 28 meets which have been held since Wefers broke the best previous mark by three fifths of a second...
Last week, with the House opening its debate on farm relief, the political situation began to crystallize in definite form, on definite issues, as it had not done in all the previous five months of this session of Congress. Political observers began to see that such an issue may arise as has not risen in the last two years, that the seeds of major political developments may be about to germinate. The reasons...
...Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts by divers and grapples...
Beau-Strings. The curious title was not affixed by Mr. Munro, at least not in the first place. In London the play was called Storm and Miss Gee, the central part, was played by the Jean Cadell whose abilities are agreeably estimated in the previous review. The part is now played, perhaps some-what misplayed, by Estelle Winwood. Both as a play and in performance the piece seems only a runner-up to At Mrs. Beam...
...Moon has sharp eyes, he may have noticed little specks moving through the gray-green scum of Earth's land, sea and inner atmosphere?specks far fleeter than the ones he had noticed in previous centuries crawling over the wide watery expanses; specks that now flit in a few days' time from sea to sea, from continent to continent...