Word: als
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already improved upon. One of France's top fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights the Messerschmitt, being more maneuverable...
...fiction about France be fore the Revolution, by the sister of Julian Green. Miss Green's Duchess breaks silence in old age to describe her century with a fine grandmotherly wit, telling her tales about as well as they are told in the sources (Saint-Simon, Voltaire, et al...
...Al Burns of the Post: "I prodict a 13 to 6 win for Harvard, on trickery...
...were in their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins don't get it first...
...refused to comment about Plan E and about the campaign promise of Al Maguire '40, a candidate in ward 7, to have the proposal for city manager placed on the ballots in the 1940 state election...