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...ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling of people with very strong religious convictions. . . . Joshua made the sun stand still. The Fundamentalists will make the ages roll back. . . . This is as brazen and bold an attempt to destroy liberty as was ever seen in the Middle Ages...
This exploit was to be, of course, a four-cylinder car to roll into the little shoes of the late Maxwell. The Chrysler touring car was advertised at $895, the coupé at $995, the sedan at $1,095, the "coach" at $1,045. The newcomer would have to compete with the Overland, Dodge, Essex, Oldsmobile, Hupmobile just as its older brother had competed with the Buick, Jordan, Reo, Studebaker, Rickenbacker, Hudson, Nash, Willys-Knight. But in this it would be aided, not only by its Maxwell legacy, but by the older brother's reputation. The promises...
...Show You the Town." Reginald Denny and this narrative have been pitched precipitously together in the interest of slapstick. They roll about for several reels, get drunk, splashed with mud and involved with several females. The audience is generously amused. There was a time when Mr. Sennett had this particular market virtually to himself and his two-reelers...
Improvements for the telegraph and for Dr. Bell's telephone of 1875; the electric pen or telescribe, and the mimeograph; the megaphone; an instantaneous vote-recording machine which Congress rejected because "one of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought...
...than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision ahead; its retractible gear allowing the plane to alight on ship deck, on land, on sea, or to roll up a beach under its own power; with its photographic, wireless and heating arrangements, the Loening is the last word in airplane construction...