Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME spoke of the run of Indian Chief Tall Feather in 19 hr., 47 min.-4 hr., 56 min., 30 sec., slower than that of Hatch; wrongly said "no human had ever before run between Milwaukee and Chicago in so short a time...
Smiddy Reports. "The inferior types of Irish bulls are being rapidly eliminated under the Livestock Breeding Act." Thus, at Chicago last week spoke Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister from the Irish Free State...
...Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...club, by reporters who demanded detailed explanations. Miss Baker, clad in an Afric dance costume of bright feathers, shrugged nervously, grinned, confessed: "Stories sure do travel fast. It was all something I told my friends for a joke-and see how everybody has taken it seriously. The wedding I spoke of was only just a movie wedding...
Scowling Marshal. Not without boldness did Henry P'u-Yi speak of China's "rotten generals," at Tientsin last week for even as he spoke two of these generals were entering into an alliance, preparing to march upon Tientsin and Peking with...