Word: closed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year 1916 drew to a close. "Dearest Babs . . . J.D. is too damned slow for words ... holds me up all down the line...
Food, machinery and raw materials-Marshall Plan aid from the U.S.-is unloading on the docks of western Europe. What difference does it make? One close-up answer can be found in the town of Nijverdal (pop. 9,000), set in the peatbog country of eastern Holland. To Nijverdal, the Marshall Plan means cotton. When TIME Correspondent Frank White went to have a look, he found that word of his coming had got to Nijverdal ahead of him. Cabled White last week...
Short-tempered, sweating boatmen struggled to push their sampans and junks close to the fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...
...million opera house that Chicagoans call "Insull's Folly," his tiny orchestra (he brought 37 musicians with him, added 25 Chicagoans) had to saw and blow hard to be heard; and his singers, fearful of losing themselves-and their voices - in the 75-ft.-deep stage, hovered close to the footlights. When it was over, some veteran operagoers who remembered Mary Garden's Salome thought that Brenda Lewis' striptease with the seven veils was a bit corny. But one listener, as taken with Brenda's figure as with her singing, reported: "Salome had the best voice...
Action began suddenly in the last quarter when the forty-niners completed three in a row. With two minutes of playing time left, sophomore forward Mary Brandt connected two in a series of long desperation shots. The seniors however, kept their two point lead at the close and added 25 more points for their class toward the all-sports intramural trophy...