Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary Jardine's case, the offending sound was a routine bi- monthly report prepared by some of his economic experts on the world's cotton markets. The last sentence in the report said: "As was indicated in last month's report, should the present estimate of production be realized and past relationship between supply and price prevail, it is likely that prices will decline in the next few months...
...advisors reports on all Freshmen, which were written for the first time last October, will again be a feature of the system this fall. The reports, however, will be more important than in the past, for when a Freshman's standing is questionable, the Freshman Dean will call for the advisor's report and use it to aid him in deciding the case. The reports will be used only by the Advisory Committee and the deans will not be published...
...gloomily in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo thinking of a name for his new baby girl. Imperial priests from the Imperial Sanctuary awaited in the Imperial Palace for the Imperial word; for they were to go to the Imperial Shrine of Ife at Yamada, 200 miles from Tokyo, and report her name to the Imperial Ancestors...
...various points in the South, frenzied blackamoors scuttled in from fields to report balloons overhead. Three more bags dropped safely the second day. Farthest South (the race was for distance) finally dropped the Detroit, piloted by R. C. Hill and A. G. Schlosser, having floated some 800 miles. (Frenchman Bennaime's 1,358-mile float from Stuttgart to Moscow in 1920 remains the record). The Goodyear VI placed second, W. T. Van Orman piloting...
Cosmic Rays. The hall was packed to hear Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology report on another summer's investigation of the all-penetrating ether vibrations, or universal rays, detected a quarter-century ago but not measured until two years ago, by Dr. Millikan. New measurements, taken with instruments eight times as sensitive as before, in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead...