Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business Board, which is headed by Marshall Rawle and has G. E. Mahlert and P. deG. Baldwin as subchairmen took two more subchairmen and ten men. The subchairmen appointed are R. B. Dana and K. T. Howe, while the other ten men are: G. C. Alexander, E. V. Bulleit, T. J. Burke Jr., Rodgers Donaldson, G. P. Hamlen Jr., Alfred Hayes Jr., George Hodges, G. M. P. Murphy Jr., R. B. Williams, and W. M. Smart...
...taking the liberty of writing you regarding your comment on the Hoover v. Eureka [vacuum cleaner] suit as outlined on page 33-34 of TIME, April 18, because it makes rather adverse reference to the carpet sweeper and even specifically mentions Bissell sweepers...
Last week King-Emperor George V transferred the Court to salubrious early spring residence at Windsor-on-Thames. Soon His Majesty, 61, was astride a gentle mare and cantering pleasantly in Windsor Forest...
Track athletes, straining across the finish line, are timed by stopwatches in one-fifths and one-tenths of a second. Last week, at Cornell University, Professor A, "V. Hill. British physiologist, demonstrated electrical devices that will record a runner's time to 1/200 second. The method involves burying electric coils in the ground at intervals across the finish line; tying a light, magnetized sheet of metal to the runner's waist. The magnet induces brief electric currents in the buried coils as the runner flashes in. Electricity, literally lightning swift, may quicken many a "dead" (tied) heat, shave...
...Wembley Stadium near London, King-Emperor George V and 90,000 rooters also saw a socker game last week. Eleven Welshmen from Cardiff defeated eleven Englishmen from Woolwich Arsenal (London), 1 to 0, thereby winning the championship of. Great Britain. No riots ensued, even though 250,000 people crowded around the stadium hoping...