Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When recompleted, Sculptor Baker's enormous woman will be stationed on top of an elevation in the Cherokee Strip, once the last public land in the U. S. Around her will lie a park whose total cost, including the woman herself, will...
...mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with ocean, is near the southern (Pacific) end of the strip of territory which alert President Roosevelt bought for $10,000,000* from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant the Panamen revolted from Colombia, which had warily been refusing President Roosevelt's overtures.† "Oh, Mr. President," cried Attorney General Philander Chase Knox...
...President Coolidge had prepared himself for a trip to Philadelphia. But he paused on the White House threshold, retreated, waited. From a window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores...
...down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some sex. Moments of engrossing writing; moments of shrewd, imaginative staging scarcely salvage the stormy whole. The title is derived from a strip which runs materials through the factory from the tangled elements to the finished automobile, ready for F.O.B...
Stenotype is a small machine with 23 keys, with which a stenographer can record 150 to 280 words a minute. She writes with it as she writes shorthand- phonetically, the words being printed on a strip of paper. Later she transcribes her "notes" into orthoepic correspondence. LaSalle Extension University offered to teach stenotypy...