Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Late in May moving pictures shown to the A.M.A. revealed how cancer pain is relieved...
Died. Ralph Pulitzer, 60, eldest son of the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer; after an abdominal operation; in Manhattan. Under his father's famed will ("I particularly enjoin upon my sons . . . the duty of preserving . . . the World newspaper to the maintenance and upbuilding of which I have sacrificed my health and strength. . . .") Ralph Pulitzer, who cared more for big game hunting than for journalism, took over the World, in its last years delegated its management to other executives, finally sold it in 1931 to the Scripps-Howard chain. Still flourishing under Brother Joseph Jr. is Pulitzer paper...
...University. Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
...most U. S. cinemaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangsters' weapon. The late black-browed John Dillinger, potbellied "Killer" Burke, the late Charlie Birger of Southern Illinois were virtuosos with the Thompson, called it, with utility in mind, a chopper. But gangsters got their choppers by stealing them from policemen who had found them wonderfully effective for erasing hoodlums from the public slate. For the Thompson, only a few ounces heavier than a Springfield rifle, is an amazingly potent weapon...
...Section of Lithuania returned to Germany late in March...