Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First of the year's-end lists of best pictures of the year was released by the Committee on Exceptional Photoplays of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Best English-speaking picture: The Citadel. Best foreign-language picture: Grand Illusion...
...Largest of living invertebrates are the giant squids. In the early 19th Century a sea captain brought on board his ship fragments of such a giant which showed it to have been 50 ft. long, not including the ten arms. Scars of combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...
...wonder." In the non-cloistered world, 40-year-old Dr. Hutchins has made no such reputation. Franklin Roosevelt once summoned him to Washington for a high New Deal post but nothing ever came of it. Last week his recent election as one of three "public representatives" on the board of the reformed New York Stock Exchange also came to nothing...
...board was discussing whether to write an official finis to the Richard Whitney case. Dr. Hutchins held that since no investigation had been made of certain Exchange members whose previous testimony indicated they knew about Richard Whitney's criminality, the Exchange should take further action. After due talk, the board, including the other two public representatives, voted 27-to-1 to drop the matter. Dr. Hutchins thereupon resigned in a huff, not visibly aiding the public...
...some $6,000,000 every month. Carmi Thompson has been president for only three years. Actual boss is Founder Paull's son-in-law, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Marshall, whose family are the biggest stockholders. Sleek, bright-eyed Mr. Marshall, who is chairman of the board, said Fidelity would fight...