Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone. So she looked for him and got lost in one of the worst quarters of Paris. Though she came to no harm, this escapade ruined her nubility, and she submitted to the family decision that she must marry her cousin Antoine, madly in love with her since the awkward age. Marriage with Antoine was a disappointment to romantic Minne. She took to experimenting with lovers. But they all left her cold. Her increasing despair made her reckless, roused Antoine's suspicions; it began to look as if their marriage would be a mess. In time's nick...
...nothing." Baer, it is true, knows little about boxing, but his blows recently killed Frankie Campbell in California (TIME, Sept. 15). At times no one could understand what was holding Schaaf up, at other times Schaaf, cooler, more experienced, made Baer ludicrously thrash the air. After ten rounds of awkward and exciting mauling. the judges decided that Schaaf had the edge. Baer, though the loser, fought so willingly that he may be given other and better chances to show what he can do. Enthusiasts called it "the best heavyweight go in New York this year...
...Radio Corp. of America, bought "certain assets" of the Pathe company. These assets included the crowing cock trademark, the three actresses, the library. They did not include the 49% interest which Pathe holds in the profitable Du Pont-Pathe Film Manufacturing Corp. The merger will do away with an awkward contract under which Radio-Keith-Orpheum houses had to play a certain number of Pathe | pictures yearly. Each company will keep on making and distributing its own pictures...
...growth of the Cambridge School of the Drama has been gratifying to all those interested in the renaissance of dramatic instruction at Harvard. There have been many difficulties encountered and successfully overcome which have arisen from the awkward nature of dramatic expression. The lack of funds, however, has been the chief drawback to the development of the school, and with the situation now much better in this respect there is every reason to expect a substantial increase in the facilities for production and teaching...
...Montana. Princeton paleontologists under the leadership of Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen. digging in a cretaceous formation near Red Lodge in southern Montana, found some old broken eggs. They thought the eggs might have been laid 50 million years ago by an awkward dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million...