Word: hours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause of this magisterial to do had come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below a blackened sign: PATHE TALKING COMEDIES MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGH...
...Passengers on the ponderous Berengaria told how their ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house had been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant Col. Sam Park...
...more to scientific iniquities, to follow him. To Lecturer Day he said: "I hope God will bless you and show you your mistake. You do not realize the thorns you are planting." Then he led his fellow divinity students away to their building, to kneel and pray for one hour for Howard College...
...this reason astronomers (who begin their astronomical day at noon, do not divide it into two 12-hour periods) advocate a calendar change...
Considerable haggling might be avoided by dispensing courts on a system of coupons comparable to that with which the H. A. A. News is distributed at the Stadium. This would prove of great assistance to the prospective athlete who arrives five minutes before the hour with a nickel and four pennies, as well as to the opposite type of individual who never has anything smaller than a five-dollar bill...