Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor-married an American woman. Marguerite Branyen. The words the Maharaja chose were strangely reminiscent of Edward VIII's famous last speech as King...
...monument which has been leveled to the dust since Berenice Abbott photographed it in May 1938, is the almost Babylonian Old Post Office, built in 1869-78 after a fantastic architectural competition from which the Government chose not one but 15 winning designs, used the best features of all 15. Art project researchers and Writer Elizabeth McCausland collaborated on furnishing such factual tid-bits for each of the 97 pictures. Publisher and printer apparently collaborated not enough, allowing some reproductions to suffer from dandruff in the blacks...
Northwest chose the light-weight (4 oz.), nose-gripping oxygen masks invented by grey-haired Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and two other doctors of the Mayo Clinic and already used to cure and prevent seasickness (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week, after demonstrating the oxygen sys tem in an overweather flight of four hours and 50 minutes from Minneapolis to Boston with nine passengers, Chief Pilot Mai Freeburg showed Northwest's new flying wrinkle to Boston and Manhattan scientists and newsmen...
...before been so widely disseminated, but in general, program directors seem to assume, a priori, that the average listener's intelligence is little above the ten-year age level. As a result instead of making even a feeble effort to improve the average mind, the guiding hands of radio chose long ago the path of least resistance--programs are brought down to the average level. This is the only rational explanation of the "Green Hornet" adventures, the comedians, and the "dramatic" sketches which currently clutter the air-waves...
...first half was the period in which McKellar chose to get hot, and it was largely due to his efforts that the Blue enjoyed an 18 to 16 lead at half-time. Al Stevens took over where he left off after the intermission, and the Harvard offensive efforts, confined mostly to Lutz, Legg, and Lupien, failed to keep pace with him in the final moments of the game...