Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judges were a curious assortment: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Amelia Earhart, Stratospherist Major Albert William Stevens, George Henry High of the Royal Photographic Society, Editor Kenneth Wilson Williams of Eastman Kodak trade publications. To Nowell Ward of Chicago, for a picture of a handsome little boy drowsing over a book while a sort of dream picture of dueling pirates appeared over his shoulder, they finally awarded first prize of $1,000. plus the special $500 prize in the division of children's por traits...
President Roosevelt is a big man physically, as well as mentally. Would TIME please publish his height and weight for curious readers...
...Curious Readers...
...earth: his first sight of the War from the height of two miles, flights over London at night, successive realizations of the triviality of man's work. God, he reflected, could come within a mile of earth and never see a sign of humanity. Cities seemed only "curious and intricate agglomerations of little pink boxes," insignificant, ugly, impermanent compared with the patterns of woods and fields...
These New York Herald Tribune headlines last week delighted those readers of that arch-Republican sheet who hope to see Franklin Roosevelt defeated in November. Republicans, Democrats and non-partisans were equally curious about the reasoning which led to the headlines' conclusion. One Rogers C. Dunn, the Herald Tribune story went on to relate, having investigated the politics of every newspaper in the land (except those in six States which he conceded to the Democrats), had found that in 33 States representing 377 electoral votes (266 needed to win), the bulk of newspaper circulation belongs to Republican sheets...