Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replied General Balbo: "I greet you all as a commander and a companion. We are ready with tranquil spirit. I am not unmindful of danger?. . . . But these are not inferior to our destiny...
Professor Kellogg conceived the experiment when he was at Columbia University, six years ago. After he secured his Indiana post and other psychologists applauded the idea, the Kelloggs agreed to have a baby to companion an ape. Their boy, Donald, was born Aug. 31, 1930. His parents at first wanted to take him to Sumatra to find a foster brother or sister among the orangutans. But they lacked the money. No U. S. zoo would loan them an infant ape. The Kelloggs felt frustrated until Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale's ape expert, offered to loan them...
...employes. One such is his onetime chief engineer. Donald Douglas, now a famed airplane builder of bombers, amphibians, transports in his own right. Builder Martin has not piloted a plane for some 15 years. He dresses nobbily. lives in Washington with his mother. Mrs. Minta Martin, his constant companion, who was to be on hand this week when President Roosevelt formally presents the Collier trophy...
...descended to the wreck in a new kind of duralumin diving suit which .combines flexibility with pressure resistance, had opened one safe from which was recovered ?15,000 in gold. Another dive, he related, had provided an experience he would not care to repeat. He and a companion were caught alongside the jagged wreckage by a strong tide. He was helpless in the dark green water for 40 min. Undertow bashed him against sharp steel, so dented his duralumin suit that twelve stitches had to be taken in his side when he was rescued an hour later. His hand...
...Edouard Bourdet; Lee Shubert, producer) was adapted from the French by Dorothy Cheston Bennett and is concerned with the foibles of literary and publishing folk. Shrewd Mosca is arranging to have one of his authors win the coveted Zola prize when humble Fournier (small Ernest Truex). his forgotten Wartime companion, comes to call. Fournier is jostled and insulted by the secretaries, office boys, critics, novelists who jam the great man's office. He is allowed to cool his heels until the publisher learns that the prize committee has capriciously given its award to Fournier's privately published book...