Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the little bald man went into the President's office, White House newsgatherers paid no special attention. That particular little bald man was always going into the President's office. He was President Coolidge's great & good friend, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, who used to be a college president* and still looks like one though he long since mastered the art of big politics-mastered it so well that he has come to be regarded as President Coolidge's mouthpiece on the Senate floor. President Coolidge once tried to dispel this aura from...
...paid special attention this afternoon while being shown around and no drunkenness was discernible on the streets...
...assembly has taken steps to insure immediate convocation through special telephone, telegraph and airplane arrangements. This would seem the most ordinary of precautions, but its unlovely materialism had previously been absent in the rosy abstractions of diplomatic oratory. It seems as though the action of the League is nearly always tardy or indecisive when it depends upon the fourteen chair-holding and voting nations. For example, the Americans who feared the six-to-one British voting ratio will not be mollified to learn that this year Canada has been elected to a voting place. The assurance by the Imperial Government...
...papers of the first prize winners will be sent for examination to an impartial committee which will select the winner of the grand prize. Elimination of the special examination for the latter makes the competition less onerous this year than heretofore...
...special equipment has been installed at the Laboratory for preparing the sunspot data. After the photograph has been made the image of the sun is projected by a special optical lantern onto a white globe, so that the position of the spots on the sun's surface can be accurately determined. The number and the location of the spots, with their areas, is forwarded to Washington...