Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article, published in the Los Angeles Record, of Jan. 31, 1928, with respect to TIME-reader (Mrs.) Virginia L. Roess, a juror in the celebrated (?) case of People 'vs. Hickman, may be of interest...
...track season well under way and one of the outstanding meets, the Cornell-Dartmouth-Harvard Triangular classic, just a few days off, a rapid summary and review of Triangular meet history will serve both to recall some of the greatest of Crimson track athletes and to reveal the brilliant record established by the immediate successors of the present team which faces one of its severest tests on Saturday evening, February 25. For when the University track team meets its two traditional foes, Cornell and Dartmouth, in the tenth Triangular meet in the Arena, it will bear the responsibility of maintaining...
...suggestion that a later Wright machine might be preferable. It seems that the Smithsonian, honoring their secretary, had already in residence the Langley machine, placarded as the first heavier than air machine. Enlightening experiments had been made with this machine in 1903, but it is a matter of record that the Wright ship was the first actually in flight. Orville, grieved that his machine would not go to Washington, asserted that such was his late brother Wilbur's wish. But under the circumstances they preferred London, and credit where credit...
...present triumph of his wish. In 1927 the production of 5 cent cigars was 3,175,157,870, or 48.3% of all cigars manufactured, and an increase of 10% over the 5 cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline of 4.9% in production of the classification listed as "manufactured tobacco" is attributed to the passing of the tobacco chewing habit...
Shot put--Won by Hoffman (A); second, Houston (A); third H. Jackson (A). Distance, 49 ft. 1 1-2 in. (New Record...