Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many were the Leviathans final indignities. The two masts that once reached for the sky were bobbed 78 ft. to fit them under the Firth of Forth Bridge's 150-ft. arch. Ten feet were lopped off each of her three funnels-the debris, good scrap, lashed to the deck for the voyage. While reporters tramped through three years of dust on a last inspection trip, careless blacksmiths started a small fire. Someone had recently stolen two big paintings. Then her imported seamen began negotiating for the same wage as the U. S. crew, delayed her last departure from...
Robert Louis Stevenson never saw a moving picture. He might not have liked Hollywood's version of his Treasure Island (1934). But he would have had a fit at what somebody had done to his unsexy story in the new Soviet film: transformed Cabin-boy Jim Hawkins into a pretty blonde. The guilty somebody was Boris Z. Shumiatsky, Will Hays of the Soviet cinema industry. Last week Boris Shumiatsky was out of a job. Other charges against him: 1) that in attempting to freight "a bourgeois adventure story" with significance he had introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering...
...ancient civilization of Egypt. Sir Flinders, 84, describes himself as "quite sound and normal." At 20, he wore a size 6½ hat. At 30, size 7 to 7½. At 40, size 7¼. At 50, size 7½. After he was 60 no standard size would fit...
...observations made on Epsilon Aurigae. Its size, constitution and temperature were determined after it passed in front of Epsilon Aurigae in 1929-30, like a cloud in front of the moon. It took nine years for the Yerkes people to evolve a conclusion about this unique star which would fit the observed facts...
Addressing their stockholders last week the chairmen of the two biggest banks of the U. S. both saw fit to make pointed references to one poignant topic. Said Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's Chase National Bank: "Since 1933 the volume of new issues, and especially of stocks, has been a fraction of what it ought to be, and, indeed, of what it was in our last normal financial year, 1923, or 14 years...