Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One patent was awarded to Ernest Lee Jackson, the other to Ralph W. Peakes and Joseph S. Reichert. All three men developed their processes when they worked for the War Department, originally filed for the patents in 1929. Both patents are based on the same discovery -that wool becomes unshrinkable...
Died. Le Roy Newton Mills, 55, Mount Vernon, N. Y. lawyer who was an authority on football kicking, tutor of Notre Dame's Frank Carideo, Columbia's Cliff Montgomery, Yale's Dave Colwell; of a heart attack suffered on University Field, Princeton, N. J. Less than a...
Died. George W. Lederer, 76, "father of the modern musical show," producer of Florodora, manager of Lillian Russell, Marie Dressier, Marie Cahill, David Warfield; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Queens. In the 1890s, when the word "variety" was almost in the same disrepute as "burlesque" later, Lederer introduced the re...
A sign posted near Fairdale, Ore., cautioning sportsmen: "WARNING To HUNTERS - DONT Shoot until U see IT MOVE - it might be a W. P. A. worker." Coincidence In Detroit, year ago, Street Sweeper Joseph Figlock was furbishing up an alley when a baby plopped down from a fourth-story window...
Courtesy Repaid Long a familiar figure at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre was tattered old Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot. Whenever a new picture was being shown she went to the first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with...