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...soon as the Chemical Exposition (see above) closed its doors and dismantled its display, into the "palace" sped men with hammers, saws, paints, brushes, tweezers, nippers, screwdrivers, wire and tapes, to prepare new wonders for the public eye-the 18th annual Electrical and Industrial Exposition. Inklings of what was in store were issued: a device enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless...
...These urbanities over, the two statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French. "Non," he had nothing to say for publication. The two custodians of their respective countries' foreign policies exchanged smiles and followed them up with an exchange of hearty farewells. M. Briand sped away to the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge. Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions...
...Taunton, Somerset, England, Jack Hobbs, "Babe Ruth of cricket," sped between wickets. When he had finished running he had completed his 126th century, thus equalling the record set up many years ago by the famed and bearded cricketer, Dr. W. G. Grace...
...once word sped through the press...
...Significance. Channeled and sped by a masterful artist, the intense lives of Leah and Eli deepen into profound currents that bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...