Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby and attract a crowd. There followed many a theatre in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and eventual expansion into one of the world's most colossal enterprises ruled...
...second diplomatic coup was in 1926. With the franc falling to 3 cents, and no bottom in sight, anti-American sentiment reached a peak. Mr. Herrick took several hundred thousand dollars voted by Congress to purchase a new Embassy and bought francs, all the francs he could, "to show America's belief in the stability of France...
...Sergius Wjarasmutkin, Tuesday is a national holiday. To celebrate it your factory has been chosen as the place in which to show a film sent to us from Moscow. It is called Wind, and it is half educational and half propaganda...
...report of the incident, made last week by a Kamerun plantation manager to his Berlin employers, did not mention an autopsy. Such autopsy, to show whether or not she had ever borne children, would have been invaluable to science...
...have long theorized over the hybridization of Hominidae and their cognate Catarrhini (turned-down noses) the Simiidae. Such cross-breeding would be a test of evolution. If children resulted, that would show that the two anthropoid groups were nearer each other than evolutionists at present believe...