Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of its discovery, as told by Admiral Snow, is a record of a quarter-century's search for truth in regard to the famous battle of the Constitution and the Guerriere. He learned from an old newspaper clipping some years ago that the bell of the Guerriere was supposed to be still in existence somewhere in New England, and while hunting for the elusive bell he came across an unpublished manuscript giving a complete history of "Old Ironsides." In a footnote to this manuscript the author mentioned a hitherto unknown work, "Scenes in the Last War," by Moses Smith...
...which he hardly ever sat) on April 23, 1914. At that time memberships on the Exchange were selling at from $34,000 to $55,000. When he was expelled, his seat was immediately offered for sale by the Exchange at the last listed sale price, which was the record $235,000. Memberships are so rarely offered for sale even at this figure, that it was immediately bought by William Billings Hewitt, Wall Street Broker...
...Club last year had a record of over, 10,000 miles of flying without an accident. This year support from, the graduates will be solicited and a graduate committee of 20 will be formed...
...meantime, Doris and her man decide they will tie up for life, so the next day they head for a Justice of the Peace in a neighboring town in his little roadster. Superintendent Sweeney hears of it, and Cannon-Ball Casey is told to break all records in getting to Oxford ahead of the eloping pair. In rapid succession the audience is offered a limited "running wild". . . . . Old "Isobel" proving her worth . . . . a smash up in which a load of hay plays a major part . . . . a record lowered . . . a marriage almost thwarted. Almost, mind you. Leave the climax to Casey...
Rhodes Scholars are appointed without examination on the basis of their record in school and college; candidates to be eligible must have completed at least their second year in college, be male unmarried citizens of the United States, and between 19 and 25 years of age on October 1, 1928. A candidate may apply either in the state in which he resides or the one in which he has received at least two years of his college education...