Word: half
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America is usually wide awake and tuned in 12,000,000-strong Tuesday nights when Announcer Milton Cross trumpets this familiar radio reveille. For Information Please, the quiz program that plays experts for fall guys, has been capital, dependable, adult radio fun for a year and a half, since last November courtesy of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. Its fast-cracking experts
...artificial forms of organization and social tendencies which, if left undisturbed, would either destroy man or hinder the achievement of his full growth. A social worker is reported to have said before the war came that if, as she understood, the effect of a war would be to destroy half of London, including its slums, and scatter its population over the country, it might not be a wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy; shall we again be fobbed off with...
...also just completed 20 solo records for Victor, and the Primrose Quartet, of which he is boss and viola player, had just muscled in on the front rank of U. S. chamber-music organizations. For him a half-dozen of the world's leading composers (including Paul Hindemith, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, William Walton) were busy writing viola sonatas, viola concertos...
...women," states Mrs. Johnson in her Who's Who paragraph, "in any nat. capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony, no believer in shillyshally, would have heartily approved: she took a hammer, smashed half her statuary, called in the press. To Painter Rockwell Kent's wired appeal that she stop her smashing she retorted: "That is a matter between myself...
...were lucky enough to get into Duke's Stadium, this year's game was something to see. There were four triple-threats on the field: Duke's two famed McAfee Brothers and Carolina's equally famed "Sweet" Lalanne and George Stirnweiss. At half time, Carolina was leading...