Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of War for Aeronautics, to railroad men in New Haven, Conn., last week. He sketched the five-year aviation program, now under way: 2,000 airplanes, 1,650 flying officers, 500 flying cadets, 14,500 enlisted men-for the Army Air Corps before 1932. The Navy has a similar program...
...this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan & Co. make a similar announcement. At Tokyo all quoted securities registered an average drop of ten yen, and the yen itself moved down a fraction on international exchange. If the agents of Mme. Suzuki took the precaution...
During the week Burmese natives killed three British officers attached to an expedition operating through Upper Burma to free all remaining slaves. Over 1,000 slaves were freed by similar expeditions, last year, and the native chiefs appear incensed over this interference with their ancient property rights by agents of the British Raj, the power which seized Burma, by right of armed invasion...
...interest in sex, Author Schnitzler supplies his characters with chances and dreams of a strictly erotic nature. A doctor's wife, after a ball, confesses to him how very close she came, one summer at the seashore, to having an affair with a handsome Pole. The doctor confesses a similar experience, but harbors vindictiveness towards his wife. That night he lets himself in for an extensive series of sex frustrations culminating in his ejection at dawn from an aristocratic club of masked carnalists. When he returns, his wife relates a dream she has had wherein she was anything but frustrated...
...Nicanor" is 67 feet long overall, and is from designs by Alden similar to his famous "Malabars", which have made such excellent showings in ocean races of the past few seasons. The craft was built in the yards of Charles Morse in Thomaston, Maine...