Word: wembley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British flag. Soon the voice of the monarch it symbolizes will reach to the uttermost parts of the earth and come back to the speaker. It was announced that at 11:30 A. M. Greenwich time, April 23, His Britannic Majesty would formally open the BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION at Wembley. For the first time, in English history, the actual voice of the monarch will be broadcast and heard simultaneously in thousands of homes in every part of the Empire. Carried by undersea cables when the air waves fail, along the All-British cable route across Canada to New Zealand...
...slow" British have invested $200,000,000 in the Wembley Exhibition. London will offer the biggest thing of its kind that the world has ever seen...
...this summer. Plans in all Eastern colleges are this year more numerous and complete than ever before. This is largely due to the unusual attractions which Europe offers to the college man this summer. Two such features as the Olympic games in Paris and the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, are not to be found in the program of every vacation...
Edward of Wales: "A British advertising man, visiting the U. S., announced that I intend to visit ' Canada, Australia and other of the dominions ' prior to the British Empire Exposition, which opens at Wembley, near London, next Spring...
...Wembley, England, at a great football match, numbers of spectators entered the stadium by climbing over the fence. Following the match, many of them mailed their admission fees to the management, saying that they had climbed over because of the large crowd...