Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those in the ears of the crowd, trailing a red finger towed by a tiny airplane...
...from three candidates. The part is exhausting. Anton is too old. So he was made the prolog reader. Alois Lang, now 38, was understudy to Anton Lang in the last performance (1922). He failed then of election to the Christus role by only a few votes and played the High Priest Nathaniel. Like his revered cousin, Alois Lang looks the part - a gentle carver of wooden Christs who has been letting his hair and beard grow for years to be prepared...
When they think the stock of their companies is selling too high, conscientious tycoons will often sound a warning. But mum is the traditional word when they deem it is going too cheap. Last week this convention of high finance was crisply broken by potent, unconventional Viscount Rothermere, dynamic chairman of the largest chain of British newspapers and allied interests...
Three weeks ago Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin abolished Saturday and Sunday, instituted a new calendar, placed Russian industries on continuous working basis (TIME, Oct. 7). Kindred ideas of high pressure efficiency came last week to Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. He issued a manifesto...
...publish. Last week tall, patriarchal President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, potent Father of His Country (founded Oct. 18, 1918 when Czechoslovakia was recognized by the Allies), spoke privily and at length to a Hungarian of utmost probity, Dr. Franz Rajniss, chief of the Social Institute at Budapest. Returning home in high excitement Dr. Rajniss declared that President Masaryk had outlined to him a series of remarkable proposals for settling the acute Hungarian minorities question which arose when Czechoslovakia received after the War some 14,000 square miles of territory containing one million Hungarians plus less than a half-million inhabitants...