Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of business as last year," was another finding of the President. They are not, pointed out the brokers, for freight car loadings thus far have decreased 4½%. The Coolidge reference that "business is better than it has ever been" was also contrasted with the fact that the record of 1926 was better...
Stenotype is a small machine with 23 keys, with which a stenographer can record 150 to 280 words a minute. She writes with it as she writes shorthand- phonetically, the words being printed on a strip of paper. Later she transcribes her "notes" into orthoepic correspondence. LaSalle Extension University offered to teach stenotypy...
...first week so many people came that sponsors of the exhibit expected this year's attendance to break the 1924 record of 133,275. The Pittsburgh press, deprived of World's Baseball Series gloatings, ballyhooed the Art Exhibition. When President Coolidge scrutinized the exhibition and the city, the Post-Gazette in an editorial titled...
...fourth consecutive year the Arlington High School harriers won the interscholastic cross country championship on the Soldiers Field flat, two and one-half mile course Saturday, while two schoolboys smashed the former record of 13 minutes 42 seconds. Coady Jordon of Hebron Academy finished first in 13 minutes 35 seconds, while Marshall Kingsbury of East Providence High came in second in 13 minutes...
...work of the League be regarded as it was by Woodrow Wilson in the light of a panacea for all international ills, there is little comfort in the record of the past eight years. Overlook the work of the Conventions as the people do, and the one achievement of the League of Nations is that it meets...