Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will be completely and expertly accomplished by said means...
Meantime, the Roosevelt Recovery push proceeded on a dozen fronts-but not without incongruities. The most notable pushes...
...Hollywood staple. Lately, partly because of the success of Gene Autry and the Hopalong Cassidy series, partly because there is no other type of picture calculated to give so little offense to foreign countries, they have enjoyed a spectacular renaissance. Minor producers who make low-budget Westerns in dozen lots are turning out more than ever. Major producers, inclined to disdain Westerns for the past few years, have not only resumed making them but promoted them to high production budgets...
Last fortnight in Chicago, Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearstpapers, and half-a-dozen other Hearst bigwigs were frantically trying to do something about the gasping Herald & Examiner, struck by the Newspaper Guild and thinned by advertisers. The Herex is a favorite paper of Mr. Hearst's. But Mr. Hearst was not in Chicago...
...money he used the income of his papers (of which he bought six more), the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, and a pocketful of promissory notes. Always a worry to his money men, of whom he had half a dozen before he got Judge Shearn, he lost all reason in his spending. By 1924 he was strapped...