Word: bitlis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This Harvard experiment has for its precedent an interesting bit of research which was carried out in England. Drs. P. H. S. Hartely and G. F. Liewellyn investigated the records of the life span of the crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England for a 100-year period...
...writer is a gently nurtured woman used to the comforts of a charming house. She is also a professional violinist. The women of England are doing their bit regardless of caste...
...Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is that it is not tragic. Until the very end, Elizabeth's insistence that Essex can save his head merely by sending back her ring makes the drama seem as unreal as a schoolgirl's tiff, the decapitation just a bit of a royal whimsey. Partly this is due to Author Anderson's original conception, partly to the neurotic bounce with which Cinemactress Davis scratches, claws, snarls and romps her way through the repetitious love scenes, mopes and moons through her my-manic depressions. For all her unerring aim with...
...lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered six battalions of native infantry and camel corps. Still doing his bit, His Highness took his sword and son to the Viceroy personally, regretted that owing to his age he would have to be content with sacrificing his heir and not himself. Her Highness the Maharanee also caught the loyalty fever, gave Britain $4,000 from her pocket money...
...from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m., with all its old zip and a set of sponsors recommending such soldier-boy comforts as Reudel's Rest-Your-Feet Salts, Freezone Corn Cure, Horlick's Night Starvation Dried Milk. After business hours, Normandie continued to do its bit till 1 a. m., broadcasting propaganda to Austrians and Czechs...