Word: intervale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are moments in Suez when audiences may feel a presentiment that Ferdinand de Lesseps is about to start humming Marie, the Dawn Is Breaking. In the brief interval since he played the orchestra leader in Alexander's Ragtime Band, Tyrone Power has not had time to make major...
The theorem that "the camera cannot lie" is one banality which no self-respect-ing photographer ever repeats. Unless a camera is skilfully used it can produce mechanical lies on the negative, and in many kinds of light or shadow even expert photographers do not yet know how to reproduce...
A subsequent report by Science Service disclosed last week, however, that even Old Faithful's schedule was no longer to be counted on. Once the geyser waited for 115 minutes between eruptions-its longest interval in 68 years.
Good scientists are insatiably curious. Sociologist Ray H. Abrams of the University of Pennsylvania, wondering how long a widower waits after the death of a first wife before getting married again, decided to explore the pages of Who's Who in America. Thousands of eminent widowers never remarry. But...
The German Foreign Minister agreed to transmit most anxious British warnings to Adolf Hitler, and then Ribbentrop with Chamberlain and Halifax joined the ladies. Later in the day Der Führer. who was holding his secret Privy Council on Foreign Affairs in continuous session at Berlin as German military...