Word: extant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hindenburg's serial number is LZ-129. LZ1 was built in 1900. Of the 129 ships, only two others are still extant, the Graf and the decommissioned Los Angeles, at Lakehurst. Of the rest ten never left the drawing board. 25 were lost by storm and accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked in the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender...
...Georgia Woman's World were placed on the chair of every delegate to the convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats," called by Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge and the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution in Macon last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). Embellished with most extant photographs of Roosevelts & Negroes, this shoddy sheet shrilled...
...Manhattan's handsome Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, many a Catholic went last week to venerate the church's latest acquisition. Exposed during a solemn novena was a gilded silver reliquary containing a finger joint of St. Vincent Ferrer-one of the largest major relics extant of a man who was one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker...
...Quietly on view in the Brooklyn Museum last week went a great egg-shaped goblet which hundreds of devout folk believe to be the Holy Grail itself. Though in all historical accuracy it probably is no such thing, it is certainly one of the oldest pieces of Christian art extant...
Practically every way extant of thumbing the nose at outraged respectability is resorted to at one time or another in "She Married Her Boss," and all the things you've wanted to do but couldn't (such as throwing bricks through department store windows) are done. Vicarious satisfaction and a lot of laughs are the result. Efficient and mechanical, Julia Scott (Miss Colbert) runs a department store office that gets cut of hand as soon as she leaves. But her suppressed desire is to marry her boss, the aristocratic Richard Barclay (melvyn Douglas), who is as efficient...