Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting an air of respectability, to award him the title by default. Last week, when Schmeling went from Speculator to Manhattan to weigh in at the Athletic Commission offices for the phantom fight, his hopes were disappointed. Instead of awarding the title to Schmeling, the Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio talk in which he was to tell the public his side of the story had to be canceled as too violent, Pugilist Schmeling promptly sailed back to Germany...
...before it ended at sundown. In the Phoenix Islands totality lasted 3 min. 35 sec. In Peru, where it lasted 3 min. 24 sec., the sun was only 8° above the horizon during totality and its darkened image was distorted by late afternoon haze. Nevertheless eclipses offer such fine opportunities to scientists to study the composition and behavior of the sun's outer envelope and to photograph the magnificent flare of the corona, that expeditions were waiting for the shadow at both these meagre vantage points. Two astronomers-James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John...
...death meant no more scroogy handwriting to labor over reverently. It also meant the passing of an institution. Richard Aldrich was one of the two deans of musical criticism in the U. S. The other dean, Critic William James Henderson, 81, of the New York Sun, wrote a fine tribute to the man who had been for 40 years his friend...
...Morning Journal (now the New York American), Financial & Mining News, as business manager of the Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When, in 1889, the great flood destroyed Johnstown, Pa., the Times sent him to get the story...
...catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed the thief, helped him skim the cream after he jimmied the bottles...