Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsgatherers and scientists met at Dr. Steinmetz's invitation in a General Electric laboratory at Schenectady. Curious, they looked at a big generator the little doctor had made. Nervous, most of them looked away again. They knew what they were there for. The doctor was to create an indoor thunderstorm, destroy a miniature village with a million horsepower of artificial lightning. Suppose, thought the spectators, the sardonic-looking wizard should go suddenly mad! Suppose he should turn his electrical fury...
...should sell well because of its title, format, anonymity, style, story. Newly rich and resenting one of Husband Peter's infidelities, Patricia committed one herself, after drinking. Some time after she told him of it Peter threw her through a glass door and looking cold and hard went away with the virtuous Hilda. His reasons for making the break...
...raid emphasized for Jews the significance and need of a meeting, an event, that had taken place two days before, about 1,900 miles away in Zurich, Switzerland. There, outstanding Jews of the world had assembled, for the meeting of the Jewish Council Agency, the new body uniting the Zionist and non-Zionist factions of Jewry (TIME, Aug. 19). Three hours before the fast of Tisha B'Ab began, there had been tears of joy, embracing, glad shouts of "Mazeltov!" (Congratulations) as Zionists and non-Zionists had signed a pledge to work in harmony for the Jewish National Home...
Lake Geneva is fed by Switzerland's snows and icy springs. But its chill did not deter Corry Liebbrand, 21, plump Dutch girl, from wading in at Lausanne early one morning last week. She stroked away westward. All that day she swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...
Winnie Winkle the Bread Winner, syndicated comic-strip heroine by Cartoonist Martin Branner, has been on a camping trip. One day, last fortnight, a snake appeared in camp. Her companion yelled: "Don't let that snake get away. One of you pick up a stick or a stone and kill it!" Near the snake was a stick. The last picture showed Winnie waving the snake wildly above her head, the companion screaming: "EEEEEEK! She picked up the SNAKE to hit the STICK with...