Word: half-hour
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There were signs of fatigue around his eyes. There was none in his manner. Through a hot half-hour the citizens stirred restlessly while his prepared statement was mimeographed; he talked quietly with the Senators near him about his trip from Europe and the war. The crowd was miscellaneous: Senators' wives, mink-coated and opinionated; Washington's isolationists, scornful and expectant; friends of committee members, waiting for their champions to tear down Willkie's testimony; plain citizens, patient and interested...
...Only a half-hour in reaching its decision, the Court gave special mention to the trial work of Geismer, who was Attorney for the Respondent, the Steel Mill. An exceptional brief by the Scott Club, written by six others besides Richardson and McMillen, helped to earn them a unanimous decision...
...shortly appoint as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, but "it won't be me." After these preliminaries Mr. Hopkins saw new British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and got to the point of his visit in three hours spent with Winston Churchill, another half-hour with George VI. Said Personal Envoy Hopkins afterward: "I have no misgivings about the outcome of this war. There is going to be a united and altogether successful effort in the production of defense materials to be used by ourselves, Great Britain, Greece and China...
...company devotes more than three-quarters of its advertising appropriation for Jell-O to his show. Just what it costs to ballyhoo Jell-O is something General Foods keeps under its hat. But no secret is the staggering gross that Benny will rake in this year for 35 half-hour appearances before an NBC mike. The take: $630,000, out of which Benny pays for an orchestra, announcer, gagmen and his cast, leaving a gratifying net before taxes of some...
...always been a lot of fun, from the swell two last night at Kirkland and Dunster right down to the famous dance at Lowell House where the whole Stuff Smith band passed out (with the exception of drummer Cozy Cole, who just kept the beat going for a good half-hour and knocked everybody out, including himself). However, it seems to me that House dances could be a lot more fun for everybody of the committees would make use of the policy of having Harvard bands, just as much as possible. By this I don't mean excluding name bands...