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Word: inners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a through examination, during which, the commission is to be provided with a large local staff and the power to investigate the inner workings of the Peruvian government, it will submit a bill to the congress detailing the recommended reorganization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WERNETTE ON COMMISSION TO INSPECT PERU'S FINANCES | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...last come to Boston in Josef Von Sternberg's latest production, "Morocco". This new German star appears to be a combination of Greta Garbo and Evelyn Brent in more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...visit of the conference members is necessarily brief and their impressions are bound to be rather superficial. However it affords an excellent method of showing the inner workings of the University to its future members and is worthy of extension to include all secondary school students who are planning to go to college. Such an impartial exposition of everyday college life ought to help to eliminate many of the difficulties of adjustment which are encountered by the incoming Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO YOU'RE GOING TO COLLEGE | 12/3/1930 | See Source »

...days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were set on fire. Two walls surrounded the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...from 8,000 to 4,000 angstrom units.* Dr. Mitchell's wavelength was 6,770 angstrom units. The camera recorded what the astronomer's eyes had missed-disturbances in the corona on the east and west edges of the sun, caused probably by violent motions in the inner corona. Evidences of these upheavals were seen shooting out 100,000 mi. beyond the surface of the sun. Photographs showed coronal streamers with unusual strawberry-colored domes. From careful time computations, astronomers discovered that the eclipse had begun 2 sec. before it was scheduled, ended 1 sec. early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tin Can Party | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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