Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third policeman announced that 100 "hunger artists" were waiting in the chief's outer office. Each desired a license to fast publicly in a glass case. Each hoped to break the 44-day German professional fasting record, now held by one Herr Jolly. Simultaneously came a wire from Leipzic with the news that a local faster had been caught sucking nourishment through a rubber tube on the 26th day of his fast...
...impossible to tell yet just what stars will be competing for the crowns this year, Several of last year's champions are still in college and are expected to toe the mark again when the opening gun if fired in the door season behind them and several record breaking performances already this spring the athletes who will probably enter are expected to make the fiftieth annual meet one of the most notable in the annuals of the association. Stadium on May 28. With a brilliant...
More than 20 years ago, in the White House, Theodore Roosevelt sat chatting with Leonard Wood after a stiff fencing bout. Leonard Wood had recently completed a health-harassing, nerve-defying job which history may well record as the most brilliant proconsulship of the age. (History is even now saying that in four years Leonard Wood advanced Cuban civilization four centuries...
...Cambridge, and while here sleeping and studying alone in a cheerless lodging, eating alone in a dismal restaurant, feeling himself unknown, and so alone in his lectures, his chapel, and his recreations, and not even having the privilege of seeing his administrative officers who know most of his record without haying to explain to them at each visit who he is and what he is, before they can be made to remember that he is a living, hoping, or despairing part of Harvard College...
Life is short, but the newspapers that record one day are sometimes 60 pages** long. Knowledge is power, but the old-style encyclopedias that contain it are so heavy that only a powerful arm can lift them. Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske...