Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War period, as during neutrality, the Guggenheims, William Rockefeller (brother of John D.) and John D. Ryan, heavy owners of copper stocks, made big profits. While neutrality lasted so did speculators such as Jesse L. Livermore and Bernard Baruch. But speculative profits in commodities were reduced when the...
Bull's-eye No. 1 was Stanley and Livingstone (Twentieth Century-Fox), a $2,200,000 version of what the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett Jr. regarded as the greatest news story of all time: the search for vanished British Missionary David Livingstone by the Floyd...
Dr. Hrdlicka has long maintained that the ancestors of American Indians were Mongolians who crossed from Asia to Alaska over a land bridge some 15,000 years ago. That bridge has since crumbled away, leaving only the stepping-stones of the smoky Aleutian Islands. During ten summers Dr. Hrdlicka has...
In 1937, hopping westward to the island of Umnak, Dr. Hrdlicka turned up another rich find of oblong, pre-Aleut skulls, which he sent home to the Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the...
Sphinx-Headed Author Gertrude Stein uttered: "It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. I always do." Best novel to lose yourself in...