Word: hering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For CBS's breakfast-time broadcasts from Europe, Manhattan has to call London, Paris, Berlin on the radio-telephone first: to check on connections, atmospheric conditions, whether the correspondents are ready with their stuff. One morning last week, Berlin came through crisp and clear. "B-r-r," said a...
Warden Smith and Deputy Meikrantz were proud of Prisoner Yun's lament.They themselves had inspired Yun to his effort, for they set great store by the lyric abilities of the Chinese. A few years back, a hatchetman inmate had composed an unforgettable Christmas carol entitled: I'd Rather...
As for the literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are...
Then he met sweet, unaffected Eugénie, who "was like the song of the nightingale. ..." A fast worker, Clisson "soon imparted to his passion a quality of force and inflexibility which belonged to him." Here a big chunk of the story is missing-probably destroyed by Napoleon for reasons...
Vag has been sitting here tonight, brooding over this matter while pawing the typewriter keys. Christmas is upon him--and only ties, handkerchiefs, gloves, and such stuff in prospect. Where are the days when Vag could tingle with the expectation of an electric train? Erector sets--where are they? What...