Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been nothing abashed to run upon the Lost Islands, to see the tall Dutchman, her cloudy sails full-set, go driving .by under a gibbous moon-cocked their eyebrows, scratched their polls. The cause of their wonderment was a ship that moved through the water at an astounding rate. It had no engine, this ship; it was innocent of masts, sails, rigging; its crew was so small as to be negligible; but-greatest marvel of all-out of its superstructure reared two incredible cylinders, 65 ft. high, which twirled and twirled. Harnessed, by some obstruse mechanical slight...
...rate at which radio waves travel is the same as that of light-about 186,000 miles a second...
...points a laudatory finger at some manifestation of national life and says. "That is typically American," is bold of the point of foolhardiness. Mr. Otto H. Kahn has pointed his finger at jazz, and said that it is America's one creative effort, something typically American. A first-rate Broadway revue, with its swiftly moving pace, is more an approximation to American art than in imitation grand opera, thinks Mr. Kahn...
...swept up and down the field like an inspired whirlwind. Surely if the team with its great potential possibilities is rested up by being sent to the country and perhaps if some flery music is played to them every night, they will be awakened, for the University at any rate wishes to be represented by men who play with all the life that is in them. Walter R. Spalding...
Died. Thomas Harbaugh, 75, one of the authors of the Nick Carter Detective Stories and other dime novels; penniless in the Miami County Home, Ohio. He wrote from 300 to 600 thrillers, at the rate of one a week, with pen; later, in the days of the typewriter, he sometimes bettered his speed...