Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indians-nearly thrice the population of the U.S.-His Majesty's Government served notice last week that the bill which is to be based on the Linlithgow Report will be debated by the Lords and Commons for the rest of the winter, spring, summer and possibly autumn...
Valet MacDuffy packed his bags, but President Roosevelt had plenty of things to do and people to see before leaving Washington last week for his inspection of the Tennessee Valley Authority and his annual autumn vacation in Georgia. When they were all done and seen he put on a powder-blue suit, drove to the Union Station, boarded his special train...
...formula D20 would have been meaningless to chemists because there was no element corresponding to the symbol D. Now every chemist in the land knows that D2O means heavy water, that D is the symbol for the heavy isotope of hydrogen which Dr. Urey identified in the autumn of 1931 (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) and subsequently named deuterium. Undoubtedly in considering last week's award the Swedish Academy took cognizance of the fact that no discovery in the physical sciences in recent years has stimulated more widespread research than...
World's most persistent aviator is a Kansas City optical goods manufacturer named John David Brock. He learned to fly in 1922, has owned a plane ever since. In the autumn of 1929 he observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down...
...idea. The idea became a story, Apple Annie. The story became a moving picture, Lady For A Day, a film of a bottle-loving harridan who played for 24 hours the part of a Park Avenue dowager (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). Before the cinema opened last autumn, Apple Annie inspired a second idea, this time in the minds of Columbia Pictures' pressagents. They would make Apple Annie herself a lady...