Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven-months-old baby she brings to a foundling home, no one will believe her, because the infant howls when taken from her arms. Her predicament is complicated when her ex-boss's scapegrace son (David Niven), solicitous for the baby's welfare, gives her back her old job and a raise. Polly and her pals proceed in persistent misunderstandings and the baby keeps accumulating fathers until her no-nonsense boss (Charles Coburn) abruptly produces a solution by announcing that he does not know or care who the father may be, but is sure that he wants...
Five Came Back (Chester Morris, Joseph Calleia; TIME, June...
Guess I'll Go Back Home (Glenn Miller; Bluebird). Able new band of able old trombonist plays Willard Robison's (Old Folks) newest nostalgia...
European storks migrate to Africa for the winter and many come back year after year to the same nests in northern Europe. How they or any other migratory birds find their way across untracked stretches of land and water, naturalists do not know. One guess is that they are sensitive to the earth's magnetic field, use it for guidance as an airplane pilot uses a radio beam...
Last year Professor Wodzicki shipped two storks from their summer nests near Butyny, Poland, to Berlin, where they were loosed with magnets strapped to their heads. Idea was that the interference from this headgear would prevent the birds from taking their bearings by terrestrial magnetism. They got back to Butyny all right, despite the magnets. That was not deemed conclusive enough to rule out all possibility of magnetic guidance, however, so the professor sent six more Polish storks to London this spring, and they too wore magnetic hats when set free...