Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efficient Tokyo Beggars' Association promulgated, recently, a system of "begging in relays" whereby the average begging day will be reduced to three hours and much duplication of effort eliminated. The sum of 70 yen per month ($35) was mentioned and denounced as the record of certain notorious renegades who persist in begging steadily...
Still more appalling is the task of taking effective steps against the Dry Dragon, a passive enemy feared even in the Occident. It is of record that under the Chou Dynasty, more than two millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...
...classes will race: boats 35 to 55 ft. on the waterline and boats over 55 ft. Many of the notable craft from Eastern harbors are entered including the Aloha, Atlantic, etc. The Atlantic, owned by Gerard B. Lambert (Listerine) holds the Sandy Hook to the Lizard (an English lighthouse) record; 12 days, four hours...
...Acosta plead guilty, apologized, went to jail. Meanwhile sheriffs hurried up from New Jersey to complicate his chancery. Warrants were out for his arrest. The Splitdorf Electric Co. complained that Acosta owed $4,445 for electrical equipment in a plane with which he planned to try for the endurance record. A sheriff's writ attached the plane. Acosta climbed in by night and flew it to Connecticut...
Frank Ernest Gannett at 52 took into his family am year old child last week. The child had been looking for a father for six years. The question was considered eugenically and Mr. Gannett was chosen on his record as an honest publisher. The child is the Hartford Times and its addition brings Mr. Gannett's newspaper family to ten. Over $5,000,000, noted as the largest cash consideration ever involved in New England newspaper deals, was Mr. Gannett's price of fatherhood...