Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unknown policy holder had threatened to commit suicide unless the company granted him a loan equal to one-third the face value of his policy. Warning the company that his policy was between $25,000 an'' $200,000, the holder directed Travelers to reply through the public notice column of the New York Times with the message: "Status?Proposal and conditions accepted. Signed: Zelevart." Though "Status" represented himself as a man who had frequently borrowed and paid off much larger sums but who had fallen on financially evil days, "Zelevart" could not legally comply with the demand. Its tactful answer...
...over which he can climb a rising flow of warm air as he would a circular staircase. A high development of the sport is "cloud-hopping," "hooking on" beneath a cumulus cloud, which always indicates warm air, and riding it for miles. Similarly an advancing thunderstorm always pushes a column of warm air ahead of it. Parachutes are worn on such flights...
...wish to inform you of an error which occurred in your most reliable magazine. In TIME of Nov. 16 your People column stated that Paavo Nurmi's heart was three times normal size...
...stay off the grass, keep moving." Leader Robertson obeyed. Back & forth behind a soiled U. S. flag filed his men on the far side of the black expanse of asphalt. Food was served them afoot, including 1,000 sandwiches contributed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Up & down his thin column paced Robertson, exhorting his men in a voice croaky with fatigue. Shoes came off, blistered feet padded doggedly on the hot "pavement. After the first all-night march exhaustion threatened to break the line. Robertson detailed relays to keep the demonstration going. Those off duty squatted on the low stone...
Scientists do not understand thunder and they still argue about lightning. George Clarke Simpson's "breaking drop" theory has been most widely accepted. Experiments have shown that when falling water drops are made to break on a rising column of air, the drops take on a positive charge of electricity, the air and lighter spray a negative charge. Drops large enough to fall against a rising air current are likely to break up and take a positive charge. Reduced in size they are blown upward again, rising less rapidly than the negative air and spray. Their charge makes them coalesce...