Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sever bell jangles twice. The student goes back to his room, collects his suitcase and overcoat and sprints for the subway. Just twenty minutes to make the train at South Station! In the station he is informed politely but firmly that the train has left your watch is slow, sir...
...Well, sir, in place of that toad going to sleep, it reared up on its hind legs and wanted to fight...
...financier is Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Home, a Director of the Suez Canal Co., of Lloyd's Bank, and of the Great Western Railway Co. During 1921-22 Sir Robert became the "complete financier" by achieving the office of British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Last week he boldly said that Airman Hinklers flight constitutes "the greatest single achievement in the history of aviation." He added that Airman Hinkler has "outclassed" Airman Lindbergh...
Cathode Rays. Little more than a generation ago the British physicist Sir William Crookes sealed the ends of two wines in a glass tube and in the tube created a vacuum. Then he shunted a current of electricity into the wires. The current sent a stream of electrons speeding from one of the wires, the cathode. They were cathode rays and they behaved in some ways like radium, soon after to be discovered by the Curies. They made the vacuum tube glow with-brilliant fluorescence. If a piece of metal were sealed in the tube, in the path...
...foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday, on the golf links, he tells his companions: "I got a birdie here last week," instead of the oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice is to quaff...