Word: recording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fresno, Frank Wykoff of Glendale Junior College and Charles Borah of the University of Southern California tied the 100-yd. dash record...
...Other holders of this record: Dan Kelly, Howard Drew, Charley Paddock, Cyril Coaffee, Chester Bowman...
...impossible to believe that you, Mr. Rosenwald [Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, Chairman of Sears Roebuck] with your record of benefactions to humanity, and you, Mrs. Sherman [Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, clubwoman, onetime (1924-26) head of General Federation of Women's Clubs] known and trusted by millions of American women, believe that the National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches...
...emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps too much), a brilliant style (now and then a polish with obvious labor in it). He demonstrates that the "psycho-historian" should be "then-minded." In addition to Henry and his immediate...
...Sikorsky biplane, Ville de Paris, built in 1927 for Captain Rene Fonck's intended flight to Paris and lately bought by American International Airways, would, it was promised, undertake a flight from some U. S. airport to Santiago, Chile. Objects: the world's non-stop flight record, Pan-American friendship...