Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, a company received orders for 40,000 "midget sets" invented by one Otto Maresch to retail for $1.75. "Persons walk the streets with receivers adjusted to their ears, hear concerts, news and political speeches." In Dallas, it was announced that "Texas has a new club whose members never see each other's faces." The North Texas Radio Phone Club meets on Sunday afternoons; "each member answers to roll call, speaks in turn while the others listen in." In London, it was announced that the possibility of transmitting radio messages in a "beam"* between England and Australia is "likely...
...physical appearance he finds our country different from the European countryside. We look differently?nowhere in Europe can he discover faces remotely resembling those of Mr. Harding, Mr. Bryan or General Pershing?we walk differently and act differently. Our nation moves and thinks with a suddenness, a violence and a uniformity unknown abroad; we allow ourselves to be taken in by Mr. H. G. Wells, and we have?it is the one contrast which no Englishman ever forgets?bathtubs...
...best thing the author has done, but it is decidedly good. These people are so real that one is sure Mr. McFee has, for our benefit, graciously detained them be tween the book covers for an hour or so, but as soon as is polite, they will walk right off the last page, through the back cover, and on with their own all-absorbing concerns. The style is bewilderingly and fascinatingly reminiscent of Conrad, Dickens (in the humorous passages especially), Flaubert, Tolstoi. Even through this land-story there throbs at times the surge of the sea and the pounding...
...metre walk: C. C. MacMaster of Cape Town, South Africa...
...afternoon, when Booth turned the Purple nine back 3 to 1, giving the visitors only six hits. His team mates not only gave him good support in the crucial moments but also turned their six hits into three runs. Seven strikeouts went to Booth's credit with only one walk...