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...longest English word I ever saw is disestablishmentarianism...
...Miracle. Chicago had its longest coattails pressed, its tallest collars starched. It bought new gowns. It ordered orchids and gardenias. It swept down blustery Michigan Avenue to the Auditorium, entered a cathedral and was struck with awe and wonderment. It found that Karl Volloemer's great pantomime, as presented by Messrs. Comstock and Gest, staged by Max Reinhardt and acted by Lady Diana Manners, Iris Tree and Chicago's own Elinor Patterson, was everything that London and Manhattan had said...
...every one knows, a cubit is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. But there are five historical calculations for the cubit, the shortest being the Roman of 17.4 in., by which Jesus would have been 4 ft. 4.2 inches tall; the longest the Egyptian of 20.61 in., by which He would have been 5 ft. 1.83 in. tall* Dr. Harris doubtless has unpublished data on the subject...
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...they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than 1,000 miles the 12,447 miles of the Southern Pacific System. The combined assets will total $875,000,000. The merger also will...