Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...based on the reverse principle that children need simpler and fuller definitions than adults. From some 10,000,000 words which he read over a period of 17 years. Dr. Thorndike called out the 25,000 most common. Five years ago he began work on the definitions. Some he built around pictures, of which there are 1,800. Others he made up largely or wholly of illustrative sentences. When all were done he had them printed in 900 pages of big, readable type. Wrote...
Prisoner. Flemington's strictly modern jail was built in 1930. Since Oct. 19 it has housed in Cell No.1 Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the 34-year-old German carpenter whom the people of the State of New Jersey charge with first degree murder. Hauptmann's wife Anna and their infant son Mannfried have been living in a Flemington boarding house ever since he was extradited from New York. Townsfolk nod kindly to her as she walks down the main street with her son. His jailers also say that Bruno is "a nice guy." But ever since he has been...
...luxury. 6) The ladder by which the kidnapper entered the nursery was made of wood from a Bronx lumber yard where Haupt mann once worked and from which he subsequently bought supplies, and the nails in it were similar to nails in the garage which Hauptmann built himself. 7) Messrs. Condon, Lindbergh and Per rone can in one way or another identify Hauptmann with the crime. 8) The crime was a one-man job be cause the ladder was left behind. 9) Government auditors will try to account for Hauptmann's spending most of the $50.000 ransom. 10) Hauptmann...
What he saw was all that remained of the world's most famed passenger plane, Royal Dutch Air Lines' (KLM) U. S.-built Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork). Last October in the Mildenhall-Melbourne air race (TIME. Oct. 29). Uiver flew over...
...What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...