Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows and necessitating window bars for safety...
...Second Dawes Committee, which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan, at Paris (TIME, Feb. 18), appointed a subcommittee of two, last week, presently enlarged it to five, and then let the days slip past, while Chairman of the Subcommittee and Chief of the British Delegation Sir Josiah Stamp struggled vainly to whip into shape an agenda or program outlining how the main committee should go about its business...
...Haffner Symphony was first - Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg. Mozart wrote it in less than a fortnight, when he was 26. Toscanini himself lost 35 of his 61 years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part of it would make...
...about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher starting speed, only to "stumble'' in the middle of the race or "blow up" at the finish...
...famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much for railroads." Back to New York State he went. He had decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse - was built. Then came the Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, the Bancroft in Worcester, Mass., the President in Kansas City, the Prince Edward in Windsor, Canada, the Roosevelt in Manhattan and many another...