Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mohammed in London. A Moslem mosque, the first in the British Isles, other than two temporary temples, has been dedicated in the London suburb of Southfields. The opening ceremony was performed by Emir Feisal, King of Iraq, third son of the King of the Hedjaz. Mohammedan worshipers in England are a small but steadily growing body. Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Fifth Baron Headley, is a leader of the British activities of the sect...
Within a few days the postal authorities hope to install the necessary equipment and have the branch office in operation. The present delay in delivering the mail is owing to the fact that the Business School is not on Cambridge land but is situated in a suburb of Boston...
...Colonel Edward Mandell House, perhaps the most astute "diplomat without portfolio" that the U. S. has produced. As such he was welcomed to Jerusalem in behalf of the Palestine Zionist Executive † feted, shown over the new Zionist suburb of Hadar Ha' carmel. Then he rushed out to Nazareth with many another...
Erwin C. Conant is a well-built, middle-aged citizen of Massachusetts, having residence in a suburb of Boston. His hair is greying. He has had to adopt spectacles. He likes work and he likes peace. Lately he was called to serve on a jury that was to decide whether or not the Mayor of Chelsea, Mass., and 13 others were guilty of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Unlike many citizens Mr. Conant did not wiggle out of his manifest duty. He was impaneled with eleven others, who elected him their foreman. For six weeks the trial continued...
Radio "Separator." In Berwyn, Chicago suburb, radio engineers crowded around L. William Skala, young graduate of the University of Prague, to observe his demonstration of a device for separating two radio messages sent simultaneously by different transmitters set at the same frequency. A wave-metre showed that the transmitters were on identical wave lengths. The "beat" note or interference whistle was heard in the receiver before the test. Then Skala attached one of his devices to each transmitter and one to the receiver. With a switch at the receiving end he was able to "cut out" either transmitter at will...