Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misted, drizzled and poured, but the Brown Derby waved from the Battery to Central Park at cheering, milling millions. In the evening, Madison Square Garden was a tornado of noisy, militant affection. Unlike his opponent under similar circumstances, Governor Smith was at ease. He let his people exult, exulted with them. When he was ready, he hushed them. When he was through speaking he stayed among them, shaking his own hands to them all, hailing individuals, happy in tumult...
...major event of Turkey's birthday was the broadcasting of a speech by Mustafa Kemal Pasha to every Turkish city and town and to hundreds of villages. Attempts at a similar broadcast last year failed miserably. The transmitter broke down but a few hours after "The Victorious" one had launched into the preface of his famed and unprecedented Seven-Day Speech (TIME...
...young English scientific worker, one R. H. Tate of West Hartlepool, Durham, last week summoned witnesses into his laboratory's secrecy, showed them a sheet of aluminum-like metal on the floor, held a similar piece in the air above the other, removed his hands. The upper piece remained poised in the air. Obviously gravity was being foiled. But how, the young man would not explain...
Without ado he placed a piece of magnetized cobalt steel on a table and in the air some distance above it placed another similar piece. The upper one remained balanced without mechanical support. His explanation was simple: one end of a magnet is positive, the other negative; with two magnets the positive of one attracts the negative of the other, the positive and negative of one repel the positive and negative of the other; cobalt steel can be so highly magnetized that its repellent power can support a relatively large weight against the pull of gravity...
...electrical industry. Its British Thomson-Houston Co. sold a majority of its common shares to the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. which controls other electrical concerns. But British Thomson-Houston's chairman, H. C. Levis, is to be Metropolitan-Vickers' chairman. Hence the deal was a consolidation of similar interests, not a G. E. sell...