Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shirley Short, U. S. Air Mail pilot; Pelletier ("Paris to Peking") D'Oisy; Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Lady Mary ("London to Capetown") Bailey...
Harvard started its scoring early, aided by a high wind which seemed to trouble the visiting gardeners in judging files. B. H. Bassett '31, diminutive lead-off man, started the first inning with a Texas leaguer to short center. He stole second, was advanced to third by Donaghy's single, both scoring on J. A. Prior's hit to short left...
...radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried by the Federal Reserve Board and its anti-speculation activities, frightened by untrue rumors of a great Kolster deficit, California operators began to sell Kolster short. This bear movement was strengthened by the Kolster report which showed, indeed, no deficit, but small earnings. It should not be concluded, however, that Kolster radios sold poorly in 1928 or that its 1928 earnings are indicative of a bad 1929. During 1928, Kolster showed a 43% increase in gross sales...
...Hollywood setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad championing the superior ideals of the American people and brought to infinite distress by contact with the awful depravity of Europe and its statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between good and evil, between spiritual conceptions and material appetites, between generosity and greed, between moral earnestness and underhand intrigue, between human sympathy and callous selfishness." Mr. Churchill also grills the whole U. S.: "The American...
...second of a series of "Open Nights" at the Harvard College Observatory, 60 Garden St., will be held tonight at 7.45 o'clock under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club. A short lecture, entitled "The Stars", will be given by Dr. Annie J. Cannon. This will be followed by telescopic observations of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the observatory will also be explained. Tickets of admission may be had upon application at the observatory...