Word: g
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help to this great cause, a suggestion has been made recently in the press by Mr. G. P. Bainbridge of Vancouver, B. C. that a postage stamp be printed for common use by both the U. S, and Canada during Their Majesties' visit. Those used in Canada could be surcharged "Canada" and "United States" could be printed on those used there...
...books' "sound sociological basis"), of not taking them seriously enough. She kisses her hand to luck, thinks So Big became a best-seller because of "those two short words, their familiar ring, and all the fat round curves in the S, the O, the B and the G...
...concluding, Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall and his executive council last week summarily dismissed Education Commissioner James G. Reardon, who week before had testified that he signed more than $400,000 in contracts to repair hurricane damage to teachers' colleges because former Governor Charles F. Hurley told him to (TIME...
...relaxation Elizabeth Bowen likes movies, music (swing as well as Beethoven), long walks, small, gay dinner parties. A poised and witty hostess, she knows many people, but her close friends are fellow writers: H. G. Wells, who lives nearby, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Rose Macaulay...
...convinced, "like any other business, could be vastly improved by those planning to engage in it." His first big order was for 500,000 men to mop up a threatened Communist outbreak in the Netherlands East Indies. Unfortunately for Orestes, the job was too easy. His supercharged G. M. units, just nicely warmed up by the exercise, ached for a real workout, and when the fatal suggestion was made, "Let's take San Francisco-," it was the end of Orestes' career...