Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they said. Burnt or no, he would try again. Revolver barked; the cinemaman, sprang, antique legs hurled him onward. Paced by college lads he ran. Presently, head back, teeth set, he leaped through a tape. Timers announced that Charles Paddock (30-odd) had brought the world's record for 250 metres from 31.2 seconds down to 27.6. Southern Californians were pleased. "It's the air," they explained...
...president. Dr. William Preston Few, president of Trinity College (1910-24) and of Duke University since Trinity married a fortune, arose before the education association of the southern wing of the Methodist Episcopal† Church, and obtained almost unanimous support for a resolution: "We . . . here put ourselves on record as opposed to all legislation that would interfere with the proper teaching of science in American schools and colleges ... we are opposed to legislation because we believe it will be futile and can serve no good purpose...
Born. To Lee Gentle, 65, "champion father of Georgia," a daughter, in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Gentle was recently congratulated by Congress and President Coolidge on his record of 28 children...
...increase" knowledge he offered awards and subsidies to investigators. A young man named Alexander Graham Bell was discouraged over some experiments he had tried with magnets. Joseph Henry was sympathetic. The telephone was made. Joseph Henry enlisted volunteers to record what kind of days passed in different cities. Out of that grew the U. S. Weather Bureau...
People who wondered why the Manhattan police had waited so long to descend upon plays against which there had been no popular or critical outcry, found an explanation in this quip. John S. Sumner is not in Who's Who but no man of 50 with an undistinguished record ever had a better chance to get there eventually. He, in this day of homosexual theatre, is the undisputed heir of Anthony Comstock, professional vice warrior...