Word: known
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artillery shells which would cause the enemy to ruin its own guns. The shells, calibrated to the enemy's gun-sizes, would be filled with thermite, a well-known incendiary substance which burns at 3,000°C., and temptingly abandoned. When the enemy tried to fire the shells, the thermite would ignite, ruin the guns...
Married. Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr., 24, star centre fielder of the New York Yankees; and Dorothy Arnoldine Olson, 21, cinemactress known as Dorothy Arnold; in San Francisco, Calif...
Died. James Willis ("J. Will") Taylor, 59, Republican boss of Tennessee, for 21 years a Congressman; of a heart attack; in La Follette, Tenn. In his early campaign days, J. Will Taylor, then known as "HillBilly Bill," electioneered by jumping over farmers' fences, plowing their fields for them while he made his campaign speech...
With Benjamin belongs Diplomat John Slidell, slick, charming, Byronic intriguer at the Paris court, oldstyle boss of New Orleans. "Slidellian" was once a synonym for "underhand." (The Confederacy's luckless diplomacy in Mexico, Paris, London became known when Colonel Pickett sold the Confederacy's diplomatic correspondence for about $75,000 to the Federal Government...
William Gerhardi, a polyglot Englishman who was born in Russia, has written novels, short stories, a play, a critical biography of Chekhov. He is perhaps most widely known for his novel The Polyglots. Last week he added to his list a long (484-page), glittering, malicious, at times staggeringly funny history of the Romanov dynasty. Subtitled Evocation of the Past as a Mirror for the Present, it is a profuse record of peculiarly dizzy people in a peculiarly dizzy part of the world...