Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the underworlds of a dozen cities quaked as virtuous Bachelors Murphy and Hoover flew back east. For some unexplained reason even the local law was being enforced in Chicago.* As abstaining Frank Murphy winged toward Chicago it became harder to buy a drink after the legal closing hour than it ever had been during prohibition...
Such recommendations are impressive. Something is indeed happening to education. The old system is not clicking so well. There are a dozen indications of Faculty, student, and graduate unrest, chiefly caused by the realization that college is no longer doing the job it once did, or might still do under changed conditions. If Harvard is to continue at, or even near, the top of the scholastic heap, it is time to take the cotton of complacency out of the administrative ear, and hearken to proposals such as the one made by the Council...
Tours. Although there was hope that the "war of nerves" waged by Italy and Germany might drag on through the summer without a major crisis, Germans and Italians were busy power-politicking on a half-dozen other fronts. Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
...Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris, Pan American Airways (of which Lindbergh is technical adviser) inaugurated the first transatlantic mail service. In the hold of the Clipper were 112,574 pieces (1,603 Ibs.) of mail, mostly from collectors (rate: 30? a half ounce), and a box of four dozen California marigolds for Queen Mary. Alert at her crew stations, or lolling in the luxurious cabins were 16 Pan Am employes...
...left the family shack to "have fun" with county law officers. He 1) stole a car, 2) abandoned it, 3) stole another, 4) picked up a 15-year-old village lass and kept her with him three days, 5) robbed a filling station, 6) eluded posses in half a dozen counties, 7) robbed a second filling station, 8) tried to rob a third, walked into policemen's arms, walked out again, leaped on a horse, tore hell-roaring for home, tired by his six-day spree. Pa Booker yanked him from his mount, upturned him, soundly paddy-whacked...