Word: eighteen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eighteen-year-old Ben Freedman, son of radio's late No. 1 Gagman David Freedman† left for Hollywood to write Al Jolson's radio scripts, took with him his father's private file of 40,000 jokes...
...Eighteen miles south of St. Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...
...Charles Kingsford-Smith took off from Lympne, Kent, in a Lockheed-Altair, Lady Southern Cross, to break the England-Australia record. He said it would be his last flight before settling down to aviation administration. Somewhere east of Allahabad, India, he disappeared. Eighteen months later, when he was almost forgotten, a wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon...
...Eighteen Radcliffe and Harvard students in Professor Sachs seminar course on "Museum Work and Museum Problems" have arranged their annual exhibition which is now on view in the Fogg Museum. Starting from a central point, the significance of the horse in art, they have assembled a wide variety of works which covers almost the whole history...
Asked after his talk on "The Present Outlook" to comment on the recent appointment of Granville Hicks as Counselor in American History, Laski said, "Eighteen years ago I would have had something to say; I have nothing...