Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Super-Reporter Lewis sniffs atmosphere with a long, peculiar nose, pierces actuality with swift sharp glances. He early attained universal notoriety for Main Street and Babbitt, but long before that he had struggled as unsuccessful newspaper hack in Waterloo, Iowa, in San Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished...
That is, about 40 living forms secrete a substance called luciferin. In the presence of moisture luciferin oxidizes, forming oxy-luciferin, the substance which actually glows. As oxy-luciferin glows it loses its oxygen and returns to luciferin, which after a short rest may be oxidized again...
...first five Freshman crews will have a series of short races this afternoon, after which the squad will be cut to three crews, from which the first and second crews will be picked after the Spring vacation...
...Literary Guild has selected as its choice for April "Round Up" by Ring W. Lardner. The book will be published by Charles Scribner's Sons on April 5. "Round Up" is the only collection of short stories ever presented by the Guild and it is the first by Mr. Lardner in three years...
...transformers, and generators, or switches and similar apparatus are put into service, it is almost safe to predict that they will operate indefinitely without electrical break-down, unless the insulation is damaged by some abnormal electrical surge such as lightning strokes, or high voltages induced in the system by short circuits, or arcing grounds. With underground cables, however, the situation is entirely different. In the first place, it is not permissible to carry high-voltage lines into the centers of population because of the danger. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use underground cables. The ordinary high-voltage underground cable...