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Wednesday, July 29, 1925
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The Headlines
Text of Bryan's Evolution Speech, Written for the Scopes Trial; In Undelivered Argument the Commoner Declared That Only Christianity Could Solve the Problems 'That Vex the Heart and Perplex the World.'
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1905)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805)
- Isidor Rabi (1898)
- Eyvind Johnson (1900)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,836 days ago
(100 years, 336 days)