Word: railings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voyagers who last week wanly looked at their stateroom ceilings or hung dejectedly over ship rails, wished from their hearts that everyone knew as much about seasickness and its prevention as does Dr. P. H. Desnoes, port medical officer at Manhattan for the United Fruit Co. Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject. He as found that there are five theories for its causation: 1) the labyrinthine (the ear contains two tiny sacs, the utricle...
...Carnegie Hall gay with Italian and U.S. flags, 3,000 people sat and awaited the greatest event in Manhattan's music season. Three thousand people sat, hundreds more stood, jammed tightly in back of a red plush rail, and hundreds more turned reluctant feet down 57th Streethick-set little man scooted out on the stage and started for the conductor's daisg a band of able musicians how his "Clock" symphony should be playedras for nearly a decade now. Here are the pines of the Villa Borgheseini, a triumph for Respighi and the U.S. debut of a certain English nightingale...
...lean young man with a puckered face stood at the rail of a liner that docked last week in Manhattan. He was Charles Hoff, famed all-around athlete, holder of the world's pole vault record (13 ft. 11 15/16 in.), arriving from Norway to compete in the season's indoor meets. He has never before vaulted indoors, but believes that he can achieve the as yet unrecorded height of 14 ft. He will also compete on board tracks against the best U. S. middle-distance runners. Charles Hoff is the first to arrive of four celebrated European...
...introduced. In 1836 the first sleeping car was developed. By 1838 Congress authorized the use of railways to carry mail. In 1851 the Hoosac Tunnel-the first of its kind -was commenced. By 1852 the Pennsylvania Railroad opened a through route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and by 1853 all rail connection between Chicago and eastern states was established. In 1857 the first refrigerator car was attempted and in 1859 the first Pullman sleeping car introduced...
Migrations of individuals and capital to Florida this season are surpassing anything previously known. The southern state can be reached by automobile, by rail, by boat.Yet this does not seem to mitigate the traffic jam on the southern railroads. Waiting two weeks for Pullman accommodations to Florida is said to be the normal experience. Freight conditions are even worse. All summer most of the Florida lines have been running on full winter schedule, and now, with the advent of the real season for visiting Florida, freight piles up despite every effort of the railroads...