Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SAW the new Victor automatic orthophonic yesterday. Here's a picture It plays twelve records of various sizes, reproduces them perfectly, rejects them when you don't like one, and plays one a dozen times if you like it especially. "All this, in a very neat mahogany cabinet for $365! The former price of such an instrument, and not a very good one at that...
People who looked skyward the nights of Nov. 14 and 15 saw the year's amplitude of meteors. Earth was making its annual passage through the orbit of the Leonids. Their orbit is a vast ellipsis swinging beyond even Jupiter, and along its path race hunks of stone, iron and other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral...
Able theorizer Col. Leonard Porter Ayres of Cleveland, stubbornest bear, again prophesied a market break. Last summer (TIME, July 23) Economist Ayres saw the stockmarket as "a great national bet against the continuation of high interest rates, and since the Federal Reserve authorities can hardly reverse their policies . . . the decision will probably be against the stockmarket with ... a serious decline in stock prices before the end of the year." With only six weeks of the year left, Economist Ayres last week failed to mention the Federal Reserve, was far less emphatic, based his bearish innuendoes on precedent. He noted...
After manufacturing 5,000,000 Chevrolets, General Motors turned its back on the four-cylinder motor car. Last week saw the beginning of production of a "Bigger and Better" Chevrolet-"A Six in the Price Range of the Four." Dealers will get the six-cylinder Chevrolet on and after Dec. 15. First deliveries to the public will be made...
Rinehart never lived so wildly in the Egyptian hotel as he did that night in Harkness. . . . The Grand Central Station saw two hundred alumni, and wife, dance "Up the Street" by the light of red flares, until two policemen arrived. . . . At eleven o'clock in Cambridge the great drum of the band, accompanied by one trumpeter, marched Mount Auburn Street until Sunday made victory...