Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national election approaches, it might be well for us to don our gas masks and read TIME. And by the way, TIME, within twenty years, Seattle will be the largest city in the United States. Put a check mark after that statement...
They were simple folk, the jurors, but all of them were able and accustomed to read newspapers. Justice Bailey saw to it this time that they were no collection of citizens so dormant that they had no knowledge of the Oil Scandals. He excused only those talesmen who said they had formed a firm opinion as to Sinclair's guilt or innocence. The twelve that were sworn were three grocers, a steamfitter, a repair man, an auto salesman, two clerks, a merchant, an expressman, a broker, a railroad agent-all men. Though few of them knew it, all these...
...Times Square, Manhattan, drivers of busses which nightly carry yokels to Chinatown changed their signs to read "Mitchel Field"; made money...
Sergius Cholmberg, scapegrace grandson of the late Count Leo Tolstoy and son of the Count's daughter Anna, was arrested and tried on a charge of burglary last week in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital. When he wept, begged for mercy, and said that he had read none of his grandfather's writings, the Magistrate let him off with a suspended sentence...
ALMOST everyone who has read "The Three Musketeers" has also read the wholly admirable, if somewhat less thrilling, sequel "Twenty Years After." And not a few people who have done so have wondered what D' Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis were up to in the meantime. Two Frenchmen, acting with the approval of the Dumas heirs, and claiming to be possessed of manuscripts which were missing at the time that Dumas wrote, have supplied the two volumes which complete the historical chain...