Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano, thundered weightily against the degrading spectacle of beauty contests. Immediately following Prime Minister Mussolini's circular to the Italian prefects came an order from the Secretary General of the Fascist party, Signor Augusto Turati. Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable two inches for the below-knee limit required to give the proper external impression of Fascism...
Comrade Rykov had announced a bill permitting freedom of religious worship in fanatically anti-religious Communist Russia (TIME, May 27). Even though the bill was offered not as an aid to religion, but as a more subtle means of combating it, Dictator Stalin was vexed...
More wonderful for its massive tonal quality than for its artistic brilliance was the singing of the 4,000. The roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus...
...first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than he can count, and his suits of clothes are said to number 365, all of them eminently visible of cut and shade. Even in his training camp he likes to change his clothes several times a day. He has never lost a fight, nor learned to speak English. He fought at 121 lb. last week. Had he weighed three pounds less he might have been declared bantamweight champion of the world, a title...
...thirsty plane flies in a straight course and at a steady speed, the refueling plane maneuvers into position above. When the two planes are in line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident...