Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living in their villages learning their customs and dances at first hand. Upshot of her study was the formation in 1932 of a ballet troupe of seven dark-eyed, black-haired Yemenite girls. Because the girls sang as well as danced, she called her troupe the Palestine Singing Ballet. Eight months ago, Nikova's seven singing ballerinas started out on a tour of continental Europe. Last fortnight they opened a two-and-a-half-week engagement in London...
...above 1937's first quarter). The pinch came in April and some heads began to shake. But the axiom seems to be holding true. With an August boom, the networks began pulling out. Last week, gross revenues of the three major chains -MBS, NBC, CBS,-for the first eight months of 1938 came to $46,971,173, neatly topping the $45,551,198 of 1937's first eight months. With no more than the fall contracts already on the books, the networks could shut up their sales offices this week, sell not another minute of 1938 time...
Nevertheless, only a few U. S. publishers, network radio's chief competitors for advertising contracts, could be supposed last week to be sitting on an eight-month gross so large and comfortable as that enjoyed by the big three broadcasters...
...using recorded programs, who add to NBC and CBS advertising intensive MBS regional coverage, has as well a collection of sponsored shows which uses its full network. Their business has grown from a gross of $1,364,876 for 1935 to $2,269,078 for 1937. The first eight months of 1938 brought them $1,673,913 and contracts already signed for the last four months add up to some $909,200 more. With sales for the year still going strong, MBS already has a 1938 gross under contract which betters its 1937 peak by some 13.6%, is 22.7% ahead...
...patient with gonorrhea, St. Vitus' dance or atrophic arthritis is willing to lie snugly in a hot box or expose himself to short-wave radiation for periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts of salt water to replace the salts lost in sweat. Artificial fever...