Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is not going to be easy or pleasant. As to my own position, the work of Senator from Ohio is extremely interesting and I prefer it to any other office. I will not run away from a harder job, but whether I am a candidate for any other office is entirely up to the Republicans of Ohio...
Except in summer, when the Generalissimo is often away weeks at a time on tours of inspection of French military establishments, Gamelin works at his office all day receiving visitors, holding staff consultations, reading reports, laying out plans, until about...
...usually begin when some foresighted or lucky producer scores a bull's-eye with a shot in the dark. They usually last until there is no room left on the target. Last week there was a volley of shots-in-the-dark when three major moviemakers simultaneously fired away at the same place, released big-budget pictures chronicling the doings of the white man in Africa. Two bull's-eyes and one clean miss, last week's African broadside practically amounted to a cinema cycle in itself...
...Hrdlicka has long maintained that the ancestors of American Indians were Mongolians who crossed from Asia to Alaska over a land bridge some 15,000 years ago. That bridge has since crumbled away, leaving only the stepping-stones of the smoky Aleutian Islands. During ten summers Dr. Hrdlicka has rummaged around the islands, looking for traces of Mongolian wanderers. First great evidence for his theory turned up in 1931, when, on the island of Kodiak, he discovered a nest of long-headed skulls remarkably similar to those of Algonquin Indians. Since the longheads bore no resemblance to the roundheaded Eskimos...
...Stan Shaw, with an engineer and an assistant, stands watch over two turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area, but some regulars click in from far-away Florida and Ohio. Once Walter Winchell, whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections to be dedicated to "Gloria...