Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Record freight loading in 1926 was reported by the Amerian Railway Association. The number of cars loaded was 53,309,644, an increase of 4.1% over 1925, the best previous year. Loading of revenue freight exceeded 1,000,000 cars in 27 separate weeks' in 1926, the largest number of such weeks ever reported (seven more than...
...death of political satire presents an occasion for truly national mourning. The decease is not recent; one hardly knows when to record the unhappy end of the art of Dean Swift. That it is dead, however, and that it has left the political arena in this country a sterile waste land compared to what it was in its prime, is hardly to be denied...
Governor "Ma" Ferguson has established a new record for clemency, or so it is called, in the state of Taxas, by granting a total of 3177 pardons during her term of office. Perhaps Governor Ferguson's apparent compassion for those so unfortunate as to have suffered the tyranny of the law is an expression of her true feeling; on the other hand it may be the result of her political method. Her attitude, however, has prompted at least one criminal court of Texas to suspend its criminal calendar until the expiration of Mrs. Ferguson's term, the eighteenth of this...
...Bury Fenners a team who did much to develop hockey, have as their boast that they have played for over one hundred years without having their record besmirched by a defeat. However, they were at times sorely pressed. One opposing goal-guard, an ingenious follow, lay down across the goal, blocking it effectually from one post into the other. The Bury Fenners had to extend themselves to win that game. But, as that illustrious captain of the Fenners, William Leeland said, "They was never beat by any town, and could do it with ease...
Stirring Sleepers. To the beds of 18 young men was attached mechanism to record their every movement while sleeping. The most nervous subject stirred once every eight minutes. The most inert, once every 25 minutes. The average: 13 minutes between stirs. Purpose of the experiment: to discover the efficiency of beds, springs, mattresses, pillows.?H. M. Johnson and G. 'E. Weigand, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh...