Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Fight for Matterhorn (German). Knowing that audiences all over the world have been bored by faked scenes illustrating the perils of Alpine mountaineering, the producers of The Fight for Matterhorn did not dare to let their fly-like heroes start up the icy ledges until they had roped them...
He opened up his checkbook to the sky
Endow as he will, the present Mr. Mackay will never be able to give back to Nevada the color of its oldtime mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with...
When in the middle of the week Candidate Reid and his 48 competitors entered the Edison plant for their official reception, they found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they...
First to speak was Inventor Edison. He was unusually nervous as in clear, precisely accurate words, he welcomed the boys and explained there was "no suitable yardstick which can positively determine the relative value of one human being as compared to another." Then as a surprise each boy was given...