Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...En route to Palomar Mountain, Calif, are the 48 structural steel parts of the giant 200-inch telescope which will bring to focus four times as much light as the 100-inch telescope, make visible at least two billion stars now unseen...
During this busy week Mr. Green was sought out by the "John L. Lewis of France," Léon Jouhaux of the potbelly and off-centre goatee, whose aggressive political unions are a great concern of Premier Edouard Daladier. M. Jouhaux, en route to an international labor conference called by the "John L. Lewis of Mexico," big-eared Vicente Lombardo Toledano, made a pilgrimage to Atlantic City to discuss with Mr. Green (who is boycotting the Mexico City conference as "communistic") the problems of Labor in relation to world peace and war. Not mentioned was the John L. Lewis...
...hour canny Premier Daladier chose for this extraordinary pronouncement, portly Leon Jouhaux, vigorous French trade union leader, was in the middle of the Atlantic en route to Mexico and the U. S.; Adolf Hitler was parading 1,350,000 armed men in German war games; the French Chamber was in adjournment; and General Franco was publishing his rejection almost in toto of Anglo-French proposals for a settlement in Spain...
...foregoing paragraph translated into Esperanto: La Esperanto literaturo havas ĉirkaŭ kvar mil librojn, pamflepojn, ĵurnalojn, gazetojn. Enn Svedujo oni presas gazeton Esperanta en "braille...
...deserter is Organist Reginald Foort, whose fan-letter pile towers highest in British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...