Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit, too. Some of the renegades have done better than others. Miss Pauline Starke's frightening Zombie was shortlived on Broadway (but is currently a fair success in Chicago). Miss Raquel Torres did not get a great deal of stage experience out of her brief connection with Adam Had Two Sons. Pauline Frederick, after an absence of eight years in pictures and in English and Australian productions, was given an unfortunate re-debut in When the Bow Breaks...
...feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey landed his hardest blow, a left hook to Tunney's Adam's apple. "The cartilage was pushed into my throat and lacerated the mucous membrane on the side. I coughed blood and was hoarse for several days." Tunney won the decision and "after the excitement in the dressing room subsided, I went to a small hotel, and had several pots...
...morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder work than young ones, are graded more severely. In the beginning, concentrators peruse or hear read for three minutes a single paragraph, such as one dealing with the palindrome ("Madam, I'm Adam"). Then for seven minutes they mull over questions based on the paragraph, while their teachers endeavor to muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry to be learned, a picture...
...annual report that G. M. cars accounted for 43.3% of registrations last year against 34.5% in 1930. While total registrations were plunking down 27.3%, G. M.'s volume decrease was but 8.8%. Also revealed was the fact that G. M. has bought out the 20% minority interest in Adam Opel, A. G. of Germany, now owns all that company's stock. A price of $8,700,000 was indicated for the 20%. The entire Opel investment is now carried at $34,000,000 on G. M.'s books...
...killed, eight Moslems.* Moslems are fiercely proud that in the whole world there are 209,020,000 Moslems compared to 206,900,000 Protestants. Moslems agree with Protestants that God created the world in six days, created a garden of paradise and placed therein the man whom God called "Adam." But in India Moslems despise Hindus, despise Hindu beliefs in a Multitude of Gods, and fight with Hindus in and out of season. Every Moslem must worship God five times every day, but by the end of Ramadan with its intensive worship he feels particularly strongly that there...