Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Extra trains ran to Manhattan for the 28th National Automobile Show. The motor makers had spoken well, well in advance. President W. S. Knudsen of Chevrolet Motor Co. presented the new line of Chevrolets; Chairman Roy Dike-man Chapin* of Hudson-Essex had made the first offer of a 6-cylinder four-door sedan to sell in the $800 class?the Essex at $795. President Edward G. Wilmer of Dodge Bros, spent more than $67,000 to hire Will Rogers, Fred & Dorothy Stone and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra to entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros...
...about a half an hour, or he may catch fragments, separating them by brief intervals of silence. At any time the machine may be reversed in order that reproduction may be carried on. But the process of rendering the record audible does not destroy it. Once anyone has spoken into the transmitter a permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger to the machine over which it is revolved. For Professor Packard's work, however, the most interesting tricks which the telegraphone...
...court and the little upkeep required, the short time in which sufficient exercise can be had, the little experience necessary to enjoy the game, its completeness in providing exciting action, and the fact that only one other man is required to make up a match. The Boston Herald has spoken of these advantages in suggesting that its readers take up the sport. Here, the suggestion is unnecessary, but with the University courts open all evening to take care of more than four hundred players, and with the authorities making provision for more courts; it is safe to say that...
...ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE?Norwegian philosophies of formidable Henrik Ibsen proudly spoken by Walter Hampden...
...addition China is a widely separated empire Its 18 provinces have no intercommunication. The railroad system is a mere toy, and connects only a few centers. Mountains and great distances split the people into separate units. Differences in the spoken language, southern and northern antipathies, and provincial jealousies augment this division. There are practically no news papers, and only ten per cent of the populace can read. It is impossible to build a national feeling or a public opinion with no tools...