Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Third: There were not six speeches, but only two; the principal one by Dr. David G. Wylie, President of the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States, who was followed by Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. The General Secretary, Dr. Bowlby, in a few remarks presented to the President printed documents containing the address of former President Coolidge, and other Presidents, on the value of the Christian Sabbath and Sunday. The President thanked the delegation for calling and made a courteous response, but it is the rule of the White...
Citizen Coolidge arrived at the Union Station at 7 a.m. President Hoover sent his secretary, George Akerson, to greet him. They drove to the Willard Hotel, Citizen Coolidge did not register. He shook hands with his old friend Mack Vogel, elevator operator. On the third floor he entered suite No. 328, the one with light blue and gold decorations, which he had occupied free of cost as Vice President. Here he breakfasted with his one-time secretaries and bodyguards. Afterward came callers?Senator Smoot, Secretary of Labor Davis, Tariff Commission Chairman Marvin, Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge, many another. They...
...fall and also will be fine material for a book I'm going to write. Everybody is so kind to me, this is such a polite city, I really enjoy every minute. Why people even get up to give me a seat in streetcars and subways." On his third newsgathering day, he was sent to interview one Lillie Anderson, just arrested on her 24th intoxication charge. After giving dry advice to Drinker Anderson, Newsman Upshaw went back and wrote his story. It was headlined: BOOZE PARTIES LED LIL ASTRAY UPSHAW LEARNS. Personally, Newsman Upshaw has seen no booze parties...
...rocket. Nor is the air. Such action and reaction can take place in a vacuum, a fact which has driven Professor Goddard on his experiments. His objective is not to see how far he can shoot a rocket but to investigate the physics of the earth's third and outermost blanket...
...third and outer blanket, the Heaviside layer, very little is known, and that only inferentially. Pressure 100 miles up is calculated to be 1/300,000 of the pressure at sea level, practically a vacuum. Highly tenuous though that upper medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will...