Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...San Diego, Calif...
...years of experiment Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting mirrors of his own design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio Peak near Pasadena, Calif. The U. S. Geodetic Survey measured the distance between his two instruments, about 22 miles, and assured him that its figure was accurate within one-third of an inch. Playing light from mirror, he timed the 44-mile round trip, calculated the speed of light...
...Louis & San Francisco Railroad. Mr. Broun described his St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad holdings under a caption "the Gate Called Golden," and flayed San Francisco as a foggy city. "Our terminals," said ignorant Mr. Broun, "don't appear attractive." Mr. Broun apparently was misled by the railroad's name. For the St. Louis & San Francisco does not come within several hundred miles of San Francisco, its western extremities ending in the western portion of Texas...
...Thomas J. Mooncy and Warren K. Billings, trade-unionists, were accused and convicted of murder after a bomb which killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken...
...Knox met his former friend in the office of Mr. Hearst's Detroit Times. Colonel Knox suggested that square-jawed Banker Guck come into the Hearst fold. Banker Guck agreed. After six months of learning Hearst methods on the New York Evening Journal, Newspaperman Guck was sent to San Francisco to general-manage the Hearst Examiner there. Now he is considered ready and able to represent the Hearst interests in Chicago, fabulous city of world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, blatant mayors, model department stores, bursting progress. Having made a mark on both edges...