Word: half-hour
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Measurement of curb space disclosed the additional fact that, even with half-hour parking strictly enforced, the amount of available parking space along the curbs was inadequate to care for more than a fraction of the demand. Some 10,000 cars were allowed to dam up the movement of approximately 300,000 vehicles...
Cause of this magisterial to do had come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below a blackened sign: PATHE TALKING COMEDIES MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGH...
...causes influenza. It is the polymorphous streptococcus. When the news reached London, where investigators have been at the same problem, the London Times called Dr. Falk from bed to answer its transAtlantic telephone questions. It was 11 a. m. in London. 5 a. m. in Chicago. It was a half-hour later when Dr. Falk returned...
...President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...Because he sat impatiently, badly, the painter wanted a photograph to help him. Banker Morgan agreed to allow a photographer just two minutes for the job. The next day he arrived punctually to find Photographer Edward J. Steichen, 27, waiting for him. Mr. Steichen had been there for a half-hour studying lights and shades, posing the janitor of the building in the chair where Banker Morgan would sit. Briskly he shunted the sitter to his seat. Banker Morgan sat down, glared into the lens. Snap. One picture was taken. Said Steichen...